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Colors vary tremendously. Akoya pearls, prized for their bright whites and creams, have a warm hue, as do the larger South Sea pearls, which come in gold, silver and white, and freshwater mussels, available in a range of pastels. Tahitian pearls, which were not successfully cultivated until the 1970s, have cooler hues, like black, gray and green. Some pearls are shinier than others. "Luster is a matter of taste," says Tom Moses, senior vice president of the laboratory and research departments at the Gemological Institute of America, an educational group. "At the moment, in the U.S., pearls with high lusters...
Over the summer, Harvard students write novels while sitting on Tahitian beaches, form future international conglomerates, and help starving sub-equatorial children learn about women in business. But when it comes to spinning the tale, style murders substance...
...beers from 60 other countries, this cellar bar is a shrine to the brewer's art. In dimly lit surroundings, old enameled advertisements and colorful backlit beer posters adorn the walls, while wooden beer kegs double as tables. It's here that customers can risk curiosities like Tahitian Hinano beer, Baadog from Mongolia, Black Sheep from the Faroe Islands, and fruit and chocolate beers. For $150 you can try a bottle of Framboise Boon 1986, an award-winning, vintage, limited-edition, microbrewed raspberry beer?no wonder it's so pricey. There's a legion of glasses in a plethora...
...beers from 60 other countries, this cellar bar is a shrine to the brewer's art. In dimly lit, shrine-like surroundings, old enameled advertisements and colorful backlit beer posters adorn the walls, while wooden beer kegs double as tables. It's here that customers can risk curiosities like Tahitian Hinano beer, Baadog from Mongolia, Black Sheep from the Faroe Islands, and fruit and chocolate beers. For $150 you can try a bottle of Framboise Boon 1986, an award-winning, vintage, limited-edition, microbrewed raspberry beer - no wonder it's so pricey. There's a legion of glasses...
...what he was after in one of his first major Tahitian canvases, Manao Tupapau, also called The Spirit of the Dead Watches. The girl lying uneasily on the yellow bedding is his 14-year-old mistress Tehamana. Gauguin had returned home one night to find her stretched on their bed in terror of the darkness, which Tahitians believed was populated by spirits. The seated figure brooding at left is one of them. Over the bed are the starbursts of imaginary flowers that Gauguin contrived to suggest the nighttime phosphorescence that the islanders believed was the visible sign of those spirits...