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...latest to open is, naturally, in Beverly Hills, where Jessica Ervin has come in search of Mihama stones. These luscious pebbles, which cost $2 per lb., are found on one particular seacoast in Japan and imported specially for those, like Ervin, who believe they are the only rocks to use when forcing bulbs. "They have a certain luster to them you just don't see on other rocks," she says. "You can use other kinds of rocks to force bulbs, but it's just not the same experience. These rocks make the flowers look better." She is discouraged to learn...
...followers were becoming more prominent, De Kooning was easing himself out of Manhattan, spending more and more time on the South Fork of Long Island. The flat potato fields, beaches and glittering air of that tongue of land must often have reminded him of the Dutch seacoast, but what mattered most to his paintings in the late '50s was the experience of getting there, being driven up Route 495 -- fast movement through unscrolling American highway space. Hence the road images of 1957-1958, in which the full-reach, broad-brush speed of the paint becomes a headlong road movie, analogous...
Tour a 19th-century seacoast fort...
...repeatedly insisted, "I care very much about the people that are hurting in this state." He noted seven times in nine appearances that the first floor of his ancestral summer home in nearby Kennebunkport, Me., had been clobbered in a freak hurricane last October. "When a storm hits the seacoast here," he said in Portsmouth, "it hits...
...first 100 pages or so, facts hardly impinge on a burst of bravura storytelling. Harry recounts his drive, on a chilly night in March 1983, from a sexual tryst with a waitress at a roadside restaurant back to the Keep, his ancestral home on an island off the Maine seacoast. For complicated genealogical reasons, the house is now owned by his aristocratic wife Kittredge (full name: Hadley Kittredge Gardiner), who was formerly married to Hugh Tremont Montague, Harry's godfather and mentor...