Word: vineyard
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...Gogh. The irony is that the artist never had an inkling of how precious his work would become. Van Gogh sold only one painting in his life -- The Red Vineyard, for about $80 -- and died a pauper...
...mewling catamites of the Left. Simultaneously I was correcting National Review galleys, sipping a very adequate Chateau Lafitte '41, playing a gripping game of trans-Atlantic telephone chess (on the other line) with dear Margaret Thatcher, and piloting the doughty vessel Military Industrial Complex across the briny reaches of Vineyard Sound...
When not teaching, Solow and his wife Barbara, an economic historian at Boston University (they have two grown sons and a daughter), divide their time between a waterfront condominium in Boston and a summer house on Martha's Vineyard. At the Vineyard, a 24-ft. sailboat is Solow's primary passion. He plans to use part of his $340,000 Nobel Prize money to equip the boat with a new Genoa jib. "I've been just a poor academic up to now," he says, noting that the value of his only other major asset, his share of the M.I.T. pension...
...snapped up the rights to some 40% of the new gold-digging projects in Montana, Nevada and other Western states. In Northern California, foreign investors have picked up more than two dozen of the region's 300 wineries, among them the Almaden label (now British) and the St. Clement Vineyard (Japanese). In Alaska, Japanese investors control more than one-third of the state's $680 million seafood-packing industry. U.S. farmland might be a bigger target for raiders, except that more than two dozen states have imposed controls or bans on foreign ownership...
...should not be minimized. John Hersey, previously noted for elaborations of such historic themes as World War II (A Bell for Adano), the Holocaust (The Wall) and the atom bomb (Hiroshima), has chosen the dialogue form for what seems a lighter topic: the pursuit of bluefish off Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts. But as the book's insatiably curious Stranger talks informally with the knowledgeable Fisherman, a cascade of lore and documents, poetry and tragedy is netted along with the glistening quarry...