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Voices
December 2006 Happy Holidays
Whatever That Means
Perhaps it is a time for blow out celebrations, the best champagne, and piles of presents and transforming your home into a show place.
Very Short
According to a November 11 Newsweek poll, "75 percent of Americans say allowing the government to negotiate directly with pharmaceutical companies to lower drug prices for seniors should be a top priority," including 67 percent of Republicans."
Vital
Marci's Medicare Answers
Verve
Holiday Entertaining at Home with Alfred Portale
By David Gibbons
Our family was lucky enough to have owned a beach house in the Hamptons and we were doubly fortunate to count among our next-door neighbors a family whose husband and father is not only one of America's greatest chefs but also a good guy and a fine friend.
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In This Issue
Vagabond
Ski the Rockies (Canadian-style)
By Wickham Boyle with additonal reporting from David Gibbons
After the first day you begin to suspect there might be a potent additive in the air surrounding British Columbia's Whistler-Blackcomb Ski resort. Everyone is smiling, tan, fit and full of life. It is as if (pardon my cynicism) you had fallen into a feel-good ski commune full of nothing but exquisite physical specimens.
Viva
Capturing the '60s Scene
By Jerry Tallmer
The '60s. You remember the '60s. And if you don't. there's a fellow named Fred McDarrah whose evocative, time-binding photographs of hundreds of artists, writers, and other hell-raisers of the New York scene in the 1960s — actually from the late '50s into the '70s -- will, at this guess, set you aching to have once been part of that scene yourself.
Vision
Like La Boheme
By Jerry Tallmer
The literature on Alex Katz is heavily salted with references to Manet, Matisse, Vuillard, Bonard, Velasquez, Rembrandt, Willem de Kooning, Larry Rivers, etc., etc., and any fool can plainly see that Katz learned how to crop a photo — excuse it, a painting — from Edgar Degas.
Value
The Art of Rebalancing
By S.W. Sherwin with Lisa Brandes
The end of the year often elicits house-cleaning instincts. We want our homes to be shiny and ready for the holidays, and perhaps we also want to clean house and re-order our lives to greet the New Year with vigor.
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Vision
Just the Ticket: What to Do for the Holidays
By Abby Watson
When do the holidays begin? Some say it comes with the first snowfall, others the day after Thanksgiving, although it's clear that retailers place it sometime in mid-September.
Verve
Holiday Entertaining at Home with Alfred Portale
By David Gibbons
Our family was lucky enough to have owned a beach house in the Hamptons and we were doubly fortunate to count among our next-door neighbors a family whose husband and father is not only one of America's greatest chefs but also a good guy and a fine friend.
Vicissitudes
Shine a Light on Winter
By Donna Henes
It's darn dark out there in winter. The days have shriveled to a skeleton flicker of light. The frozen nights are endless. These are dim, drab times. No flowers, no foliage. No insects, few birds. The earth itself is congealed with cold. Arctic gloom surrounds us.
Vices / Shopping
Shopping With a Purpose
By Wilson Sherwin
Many New Yorkers are rethinking what to do about gifts in this holiday season. Some are contracting because of finances, or are eliminating the massive present-giving in lieu of family trips or events together like dinners and cultural outings. Others look to make donations to worthy charities.