Word: aristocratic
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JAMES LEE Byars strolls the little garden of the Busch-Reisinger Museum like an aristocrat who is more accustomed to walking across acres of a grassy estate. He wears a black hat, a black silk scarf, a black coat, black pants, white buckskins, and has the gait of a dreamer entranced by a grander age. It is not so strange that a man with such an uncommonly impeccable appearance should have created something inside the Busch-Reisinger entitled "The Exhibition of Perfect...
...cruel rebuke that at 49, he is disgustingly old. Under Cherkoon's touch, however, Nadezhda becomes an emotional tinderbox. Cherkoon has already enjoyed the favors of Lydia (Roxanne Hart), an achingly bored, terribly wealthy beauty who has been visiting her aunt, the town's only bona fide aristocrat. In one electrifying embrace, Nadezhda seems to claim Cherkoon for keeps. Abruptly, he rejects her, and she goes offstage to punctuate her life with a revolver shot. Her desolated husband turns to Cherkoon and asks, "What have you done? What have you done?" The unspoken answer is that the engineers...
...skittish teenager, determined to do just as she pleases. She falls in love with her steward, contracting a secret marriage with him, and that mesalliance causes her downfall. Yet Bendheim does not make the Duchess a giddy and thoughtless girl. Though young, the Duchess is nevertheless a great aristocrat, fully aware of the responsibilities of her social position and of the danger in which her marriage will place her. At one moment, Bendheim skips for joy; at another, she dismisses her servants with a single high-handed gesture. The Duchess is a strong character, able bravely to state...
George Bush has undeniable assets. His recitation of the top Government jobs he has held?in his words, his "fantastic credentials" for the presidency?sometimes bring oohs and ahs from the voters. As a New England aristocrat who moved to Texas and made a fortune in the oil business, he endlessly boasts that he is one candidate who has actually met a payroll. He preaches a bubbly optimism ("I just know we can solve all our problems"). He is a demon campaigner, who started so early that he often tells audiences, accurately, that his race is already two-thirds over...
...else would make the music at Mardi Gras but New Orleans' favorite horn man, Al Hirt, dressed in a flashy festival costume as a French aristocrat? Bourbon Street and the French Quarter may not see as much of the pudgy entertainer as they have up to now. He is putting together a 17-piece orchestra-Al Hirt's Big Band from Dixieland-and taking it on the road. "There's a resurgence in bands," he explains. "The age of the guitars is gone. After the Beatles, there were a few good groups, but most of them were...