Word: teau
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Alinsky's Diamond he quits his familiar landscape and sets out on a literary crusade nearly as unfortunate as the one he describes in this novel. In the beginning, Francis X. Murphy, from Aruba, Ohio, is rotting away in a French château. He has married a baron's daughter and ruined her family - indeed the whole village of Vardille-sur-Lac - by being caught doctoring the local wine. As penance, Murphy resolves to drink himself to death by swallowing all 12,000 unsalable bottles...
...Reux, she prepared to wed her son David, 31, to Italian Heiress Olimpia Aldobrandini, 18. After the public town-hall ceremony and a religious service, the megamillion merger was to be toasted by the pick of tout Paris, many of them brought to the baronne's cháteau by special train. Solving such problems as whether to serve Pol Roger or Moët et Chandon (solution: serve both) and the arrangement of bushels of country flowers was at least as exhausting as Mayor de Rothschild's more commonplace concerns, such as the town's road...
...Gonzálèz, and he was the 13th child of a polyphiloprogenitive Madrid businessman. After a brief apprenticeship as a comic illustrator in Spain, Gris got to Paris in 1906 and installed himself as Picasso's neighbor in the now legendary Bâteau-Lavoir, a ramshackle cluster of studios in Montmartre. He painted nothing of importance until 1910, and uremia killed him in 1927 just after his 40th birthday...
Fragile Mats. It begins, chronologically, with the 60-ft. spread of the 17-scene Apocalypse from the Château d'Angers, which is the greatest surviving tapestry of the 14th century-and has never been lent to a museum, in or out of France, before. Treasure succeeds treasure: the elegant 15th century Winged Stags from Rouen, the crowded jigsaw scenes from the Trojan War, and-as a bonus-the two most famous allegorical cycles in all 15th century tapestry, here exhibited together for the first time: the Lady with the Unicorn series from the Cluny Museum in Paris...
...unrefrigerated and allowed to get warm, it will spoil in a week. It is probably the only beer that is kept cold from the brewery to the customer. But its lack of additives and its brewing process greatly enhance its taste. For many connoisseurs, Coors is the Château Haut-Brion of American beers; to their palates, it is lighter, milder, drier and less bitter than most...