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Winter travelers also cheerfully trade economy for convenience, since hotel rooms are often cheaper, but they may be harder to find as well. In regions thick with monuments, such as France's Loire valley, many hoteliers close in the off-season because they work so hard during the peak. In Italy winter travelers may find themselves staying in smaller towns or private homes, at a vineyard, a farm, in flavorful places where the local economy survives without a constant stream of tour buses. For those seeking greater amenities, the grand hotels rarely shut and are more likely to have...
George Bush's White House will be a little gray when he gets there. The thick paint has been dissolved and washed away, and bare sandstone walls are visible for the first time since 1817. But that will be a minor inconvenience for the new occupant of the grandest working home in the U.S. "It has never been in better shape," says Chief Usher Gary Walters, whose staff of 93 chases the dust tracked in by a million and a half tourists a year. The thought is echoed by curator Rex Scouten, who presides over the 38,000 pieces...
...know a stereotype is really in vogue when it lands on Saturday Night Live. Last year the once-funny series ran a set of continuing skits featuring the decidedly un-Asian Dana Carvey. Carvey, sporting a black wig and thick glasses, played a Chinese pet shop owner. He spoke in an exaggerated "Chinese" accent. The main joke in the skits centered on Carvey's dubious proclivity for his chickens. "Chicken make good house pet" was his motto...
...suppressed radiance in Rembrandt's midtones. And there is atmosphere too. One particularly senses it in Kossoff's view of Christ Church in Spitalfields. This tall, slender building, designed by the English baroque architect Nicholas Hawksmoor, acquires a comatose power; the columns of its portico look as thick and squat as those of Karnak, repeating the compression of Kossoff's nudes and heads. But it is the light that one most remembers, a pale, almost chalky emanation from the grainy whites and subtle grays that seems to bathe and lift the whole image. Substance is light. Such paintings, and others...
...wall will be made of dozens of individual gates that can be activated separately. Each unit is an empty steel box, nearly 12 ft. thick, 65 ft. wide and from 55 ft. to 88 ft. high, depending on sea depth. When not in use, the boxes will be filled with water and attached by a hinge to a concrete foundation buried in the lagoon bed. If an abnormally high tide threatens the city, the water inside the gates can be pumped out or displaced by compressed air. Suddenly buoyant, the gates swing on their hinges like the jaws...