Word: artes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That kind of surface -- like the banks of vending machines, the glossy coffee shops, the state-of-the-art museum tickets -- gives Seoul at times the look of a rough-and-ready version of Japan. But everything is hotter here; the summers are warmer, the people more hot-blooded, and the local food has a garlicky tang far removed from the cool elegance of sushi. Korean pride is no less full of flavor. One of the most elegant museums in the city, approached through solemn wooden gates, is devoted not to Buddhist statuary, or to modern painting, or even...
...part of a resort-industry trend toward offering action-oriented vacations, the Hyatt-Waikoloa boasts a fleet of paddle boats plying a four- acre lagoon and trams traveling over wildlife preserves. For the less adventuresome: seven restaurants, twelve bars and a mile-long gallery of Oriental art. The resort cost more than $360 million to build, including $2 million for a 77-step, pink-flagstone grand staircase...
...sport, he performed routines of exquisite difficulty with a mature, polished technique, though his prime was still years away. "At music schools, they say of such children that they have the absolute sense of pitch," says his coach, Aleksandr Aleksandrov. "With Dmitri, he has the absolute sense of the art of gymnastics...
...miles," said young Kruse. "That's crazy," the father declared. "Where'd you launch it, where'd it land?" Kruse told him. The father fell silent, stared at the youngster, then responded in awed tones, "That's five miles." Kruse has tutored so many Kansas kids in the fine art of modeling that he has lost count. He now writes a column for Flying Models, a leading journal for enthusiasts...
...does Polly, a fortyish art historian at work on a biography of a brilliant, little-known woman painter named Lorin Jones, really have a problem? Polly's women friends don't think so. Most of them are solitaries of one sort or another, and they warmly support her isolation. She is well shed, they feel, of her first husband, a medical researcher who, a few years before, with typical male arrogance, left Manhattan for a job in Denver, forcing Polly to choose between marriage and her museum job. Her only difficulty, in this view, is that their delightful 13-year...