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...exercise was pure tonic. The setting, however, was slightly incongruous. Vail is an elegant winter resort, the place where John Lindsay, Jackie Onassis, Barbra Streisand, Robert Redford and numerous Kennedys come to play. Carved out of a wilderness twelve years ago, Vail is a high-priced retreat where the après-ski attractions include continental restaurants, 28 heated pools and smart boutiques for snow bunnies. Vail is sometimes called the "Dallas Alps," a reference to the Texas oilmen who have taken a liking to the place and helped push land values to more than $200,000 an acre...
...found myself in a mogul field, so I used my avalement and then tried an old-fashioned ruade, but caught an edge, slipped out of my toe piece, helicoptered down the fall line and wound up with a spiral in the tibia."* Besides, there is the legendary ambience of après-ski, which has become something of a hedonistic cliche but keeps attracting people with its roaring hearth fires and hot spiced wine in the lodges, its hard rock and casual flirtation in the bars. Still another lure: some skiers insist that ultraviolet rays from the sun, relatively unfiltered...
...listing of the greatest ski areas is both arbitrary and incomplete. But certain areas must be included in any compilation because they offer unsurpassed skiing or high-style après-ski atmosphere or low-cost accessibility-or all of that. Among them...
DEBUSSY: IMAGES, PRÉLUDE À L'APRÈSMIDI D'UN FAUNE (DGG); TCHAIKOVSKY: SYMPHONY NO. 1-Winter Dreams (DGG). These sumptuous, adroit performances with the Boston Symphony Orchestra show that Michael Tilson Thomas is no longer a superb young conductor-just a superb conductor...
...Plagne does, four nightclubs and a Chinese restaurant? Where else can a skier strap on his skis at his front door and gain the lift in a few turns, as he can in Les Arcs or Avoriaz? Such elegant little touches drew more than 1,500,000 skiers and après-ski devotees to the French Alps this season...