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...from J.F.K. International Airport into Manhattan. The guide warns them that tips are not included on the bill in the U.S. and cautions against going to Central Park at night. Sunday morning the group boards the first of its many private buses and heads for the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine. Bewildered but obliging, the visitors from the land that created Gothic cathedrals troop up the aisle, assured that this is the biggest Gothic cathedral in the world...
...warm you can lounge in its courtyard beneath the lion of Brunswick and wonder if medieval Germany really looked that beautiful. Modern sculptures blend into the corners but don't look out of place. Goldfish swim in the fountain, and above the entrance is a sculpted head of a saint. The best time in the courtyard is late spring, when lilacs scent the air. The museum itself contains awesome religious statues and sponsors concerts every Thursday at lunchtime...
...strictly Italian-American practice, this business of celebrating the saints and pinning large-denomination dollar bills on the icon of the day's patron saint...
Britain's Prince Charles practiced it in the chilly waters off the Isle of Wight. Marlon Brando mastered it between takes of a film. A few plucky vacationers have even used it to island-hop among the Bahamas. From St. Louis to Saint-Tropez, people who used to ride sailboats or surfboards-or would not be caught on either -are trying something that combines the best of both: windsurfing, a fast-growing sport that makes the practitioner a part of his boat as he holds the sail, and the wind, in his hands...
...celebrate the 86th birthday of Europe's greatest living painter, some 300 examples of Joan Miro's last quarter-century of work were rounded up for a unique display at Saint-Paul-de-Vence on the French Riviera. The ultimate objetamid the sculpture, paintings and stained glass: the artist himself, in a rare public appearance. Physically Miro showed the shadings of age; artistically, however, he sounded positively primal. "I have a whole infinity of projects in mind," he promised the gathering of international well-wishers. "I am simply waiting for an opportunity to realize them...