Word: chic
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...impress the folks back home. So it was for Bashar al-Assad, the President of Syria (which was once ruled by France under a League of Nations Mandate). Over the past weekend, Syrian state television has been beaming round-the-clock images of the Syrian President and his tres chic First Lady making the scene in the City of Light: Bashar at a summit for Mediterranean leaders, Asma at the Louvre and Centre Pompidou, and both of them as official guests of French President Nicholas Sarkozy at Bastille Day celebrations on Monday. From all the high-wattage smiles...
...Raffles Hotel Le Royal, tel: (855-23) 981 888. Happy hour there is a staple for the city's glitterati. The hotel's Café Monivong has a great a la carte menu and fine buffet spread. For an after-dinner or a preclub drink, try the chic Metro Bar, tel: (855-23) 222 275, on Sisowath Quay. Just around the corner, off the riverfront, is the Memphis Pub, tel: (855-12) 871 263, which has live rock and blues until the early hours. If I'm going out dancing with my models, we hit River Lounge...
...currently chic for fancy novelists to slum it in the lower genres, the way Marie Antoinette used to dress up as a peasant and milk cows. Sebastian Faulks just wrote a James Bond novel; Michael Chabon's The Yiddish Policemen's Union was a noir mystery set in an alternate universe. Some writers find the discipline invigorating: look at The Road, Cormac McCarthy's fling with apocalyptic science fiction. Some don't: Martin Amis' Night Train was an undercooked attempt at hard-boiled detective fiction. It turns out that trashy books are as hard to write as good ones...
...chic yet down-to-earth brunette began her trip to the top in front of a Belgrade TV set. She worshipped Monica Seles, to this point Serbia's most famous tennis star. During one Seles match, before Ivanovic had turned 5, she saw a commercial for a local tennis school. She memorized the phone number. "I forced my parents to call and sign me in," says Ivanovic. "My mom was like, 'Maybe you should go to dance school.' I said, 'No, no. I want tennis...
...feels no shame that she has sex for a living; nor does Showtime, whose Call Girl ads have a retro-glam shot of Piper reclining in a martini glass. An Amy Winehouse theme song adds to the gritty-chic vibe. In a way that is sure to offend liberal feminists and conservative moralists alike, Call Girl is glamorous yet not glamorized. Belle has expensive clothes and a fab flat, but she doesn't have a fantasy life--just a well-paying job embodying men's fantasies...