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Article: Vienna still waltz capital; Night at ball fulfills a childhood dream.(TRAVEL)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- October 12, 2002
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Byline: Corinna Lothar, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Vienna. The beautiful blue Danube (we all know it's about as blue as a cow's eyes); couples strolling in the leafy Vienna Woods sampling the new wine; Mozart echoing in baroque churches; Orson Welles' face lighted by match light in a dark doorway; coffee and pastries with or without schlag in old coffeehouses; gilded remnants of Austro-Hungarian imperial splendor; Gustav Klimt and his brilliant erotic paintings; the secession; and, of course, Johann Strauss and his waltzes.
Vienna is all of this, sometimes in unexpected and surprising forms, although the city, like the rest of the world, has changed ...