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...probably never saw Silent Witness race in the flesh, and may not have caught him on TV either. For his home was not the dirt tracks of the U.S. or the impossibly green paddocks of Britain and Ireland, but a splendid racing complex set amid skyscrapers in Hong Kong's Sha Tin New Town. To the folk of Hong Kong, a Special Administrative Region of China, Silent Witness was a hero; to true followers of the turf, worldwide, a legend. Now, put to pasture, he deserves to be known for who he really...
...afford to lose its way. The question of its survival is involved. Arthur Hertzberg, a vice president of the World Jewish Congress, believes something began to go wrong for Israel at the moment of its greatest triumph, the Six-Day War. He argues that while the 1967 victory was splendid for the Jewish ego, in Israel and in the Diaspora, the demonstration of such brilliant power, whatever advantages it brought, eventually led down a path of aggressiveness and grandiosity. After the Six-Day War, Ben-Gurion, then in retirement, warned Israel that it should give back all the captured territories...
...Nemo got the publishing treatment it deserved: a full-size (21-by-16-in.) book called So Many Splendid Sundays, created with love and by Peter Maresca, a former designer at Apple. As an art book, it's as gorgeous as any devoted to Michelangelo or Matisse, and the reproductions are better. You may not find a shelf with vertical space big enough to hold this book; and don't put it on a coffee table (whose service it would nearly cover), less you spill some frappuccino on it. But buy and treasure it - and hope that, unlike my copy...
...colors shimmer with feathers, beads, buttons and metallic threads. An ordinary flight jacket, when encrusted with 25,000 brass safety pins, is transformed into glittering armor. Knitted into a wool jacket, along with abstract images of the sun and its rays, are words by Walt Whitman ("Give me the splendid, silent sun/With all his beamsfull?dazzling"). A book for people who dress to thrill...
...beauty of some things prevails even in an age of overexposure. Châteaux of the Loire (Vendome; 152 pages; $45) is a splendid case in point. Photographer Daniel Philippe has looked again at 19 of these fairyland fortresses, both from the sky and the ground, in snow and in bloom. There is formidable Chambord, which may have been planned by Leonardo da Vinci, and delicate Azay-le-Rideau, the creation of a banker who went too far when he mixed state money with his own. The aerial exposures suggest that some of the châteaux were designed for the eyes...