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Wyborowa single estate vodka is a difficult thing to grasp. Not intellectually speaking--by now, spending $30 a bottle for an essentially odorless, flavorless liquid is considered a sign of excellent taste--but the bottle is hard to grip. The top twists away from the base, knocking it off balance in one's hand, making every pour an adventure and giving it the appearance of a Frank Gehry creation...
...season draws to a close in March, with Hooked on Seafood, held in Nelson on March 13, and the Hokitika Wildfoods Festival - celebrating Maori cuisine - scheduled for the same day. On the Wildfoods menu are seagull egg, cricket, mako shark, muttonbird and manuka pork. Not a chunk of flavorless cheddar in sight...
...After gazing longingly at the bright red cups and party straws for a week, I took the plunge. Coke slurpees became our excuse--all summer--to step out of the office. I happily and gleefully slurped my way through the afternoon, nothing saddening me more than the tell-tale flavorless suck telling me: You have struck slush...
...renovations, but he and partner Todd Schliemann conceived the Rose Center as a brisk geometric eruption, like I.M. Pei's Louvre pyramid, that shakes up the buildings around them. The old Hayden Planetarium, demolished to make way for the Rose, had blended all too well with the museum's flavorless north end. Polshek's forms, by contrast, operate on our deepest fantasies about the order of the universe. His sphere is covered with steel panels that inscribe it with meridians and latitude lines, so it stands in easily for the earth. But see it from the side, within sight...
...have undermined the IMF, which over 50 years has built up the expertise--and, even more important, the credibility--to handle these complicated and politically sensitive operations. The salient point, said President Clinton, is that "on a global level, the role of the IMF remains central." The language was flavorless. The message wasn't: Eat your spinach...