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Sunday, August 29 1999

Grappa

Friends are great, but friends are better when they enjoy drinking grappa with you. A word of advice to those who still play drinking games: grappa should never ever be your weapon of choice unless you are supremely confident of victory. (I speak from experience, having weathered a particularly ugly and painful defeat at the hands of a backgammon wizard.) It does, however, make for <a href = "http://aaronland.net/weblog/grappa_cake.shtml">excellent chocolate cake</a>.

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Michael Kimmelman

It is as if they were saying: this is what architecture, carried to a creative extreme, can do for an art that is strong enough and sympathetic enough to deal with it, and vice versa.

Speaking of art, there was a time a few years ago when tea-bag art was all the rage. I wonder whether anyone has started making art out of laundry detergent scoops yet.
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Saturday, August 28 1999 ←  → Monday, August 30 1999