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After the salty flavor of Olhão and the rural serenity of Moncarapacho, the aristocratic bearings of Tavira, one of the true gems of the Algarve, may come as something of a surprise.
Smaller islands with fabled names such as Elba, Stromboli, and Lipari fill in the necklace of floating gems, many reached only by boat, where the lifestyle is that of the Mediterranean one hundred years ago.
The grounds of the University of British Columbia, one of the most beautiful college campuses in North America, are nearby; the terraced Sedgwick Library and the Faculty Club rose garden are two notable gems set against a superb sea and mountain backdrop.
Two weeks ago, art historian Simon Schama predicted in The New Yorker that Pam Gems' play about midcentury British painter Stanley Spencer, his wife, and his lover would be received--unfairly, claimed Schama--as "yet another formulaic contribution to the flourishing genre of painter-as-prick."
One of the gems Bill has added to our language is the phrase, “I wonder what the Sharps and the Ushkrats are doing tonight.”