Word: banqueting
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...into relief. He isn't being hit-or-miss. He is, on the contrary, being intensely thoughtful. The arrays of pie slices or cake stands become Utopian: soft but strict geometry. (No wonder the Pop artist Thiebaud liked best was Claes Oldenburg.) One of the dictators of classical French banquet cooking in the early 19th century, Marie-Antoine Careme, was once asked to name the main arts of humankind. He reeled them off, finishing with "architecture--of which the principal branch is la patisserie." Thiebaud might have agreed...
...deal ratchets up the pressure for China's struggling former Internet darlings such as Sohu, Netease and Sina to find powerful foreign partners of their own. Even as they cope with serious internal troubles, executives from Sina and Netease shared a table at the AOL-Legend celebratory banquet in Beijing, which struck some as a symbolic wake for China's early homegrown Internet businesses. Now all will be watching to see if this new venture can figure out what those ventures never could: how to make money...
...years from the time of Caesar, Cleopatra and all things Egyptian intrigued even those Romans who demonized her, influencing style, customs and culture. By the early Renaissance in Europe, with its revival of interest in classical traditions, Cleopatra again became a subject of art, literature and fashion. Her luxurious banquet for Antony, his death, her grief at his tomb and her own death all are represented in paintings and sketches in the exhibition, as well as on a variety of decorative objects, including watches, fans and vases. The Renaissance portrayal of the tough and tragic seductress-as derived from...
LAST WEEK Electronic Industries Alliance Government Industry Dinner, Grand Hyatt, D.C.: "On my way out, Laura, the First Lady, said, 'Where are you going?' I said, 'Well, I'm going to go speak to a banquet of high-tech entrepreneurs and people who are making the economy grow.' She said, 'Whatever you do, don't try to be charming, witty or debonair...Just be yourself...
...have no meaning other than its own kinetic rush, but who cares? This is more than an exercise in style; it's a 113-minute Soloflex workout--the movie-est movie of the year. It has dynamite set pieces, like a gun chase in the corridors under a banquet hall and the climactic scene where a young woman (Candy Lo) gives birth at the precise moment that she also blasts a killer to hell. Tsui giveth life, and Tsui taketh it away...