Word: chic
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Party on, traveler. The company that started the industry's bedding wars is looking to define a new segment called "lifestyle" hotels: chic, sociable and affordable. The first Aloft outpost opened in Montreal in June, and a further 17 openings are planned this year. Aloft is focused on attracting the road warrior, a customer who has grown up with the irreverent, friendly service of Southwest Airlines, the open office, the work-among-the-crowd Starbucks culture, and is accustomed to innovative design, via Target and Ikea, at a good price. The next generation of business travelers may have meetings with...
...tanned legs, nuzzles or nestles in her cleavage, and can find no flaw, as if she were the prize creation of a CGI wizard. One scene - where Samantha, as a treat for Smith, lies nude on their dining room table, her body garnished with sushi - could be a chic photo essay in either Maxim or Gourmet. I don't know the particulars of Cattrall's maintenance regimen, but, as a friend of mine said about another, gorgeous, 50-plus actress, "If she's had work, it's great work." (The other major character in the film is New York City...
...Aria, tel: (61-2) 9252 2555, offering contemporary Australian cuisine. Then I'd take in a concert or play at the Opera House, tel: (61-2) 9250 7777, or listen to live rock or blues at the Basement, tel: (61-2) 9251 2797, and end the evening at the chic Bligh...
...chic and pricey China Club in Hong Kong is about the only place in China where you'll find fortune cookies served after a meal. Like the Cultural Revolution memorabilia in the club's bar, the cookies are meant to be amusing and ironic. But the fact that they're an in-joke among Hong Kong's fashionable diners, as opposed to the time-honored conclusion to meals that they are in Chinese restaurants in the U.S., illustrates just how divorced real Chinese cooking has become from its American offshoot...
...than much of the movie. There are scenes that play like stretching exercises at the retirement home; there are garrulous passages while Indy translates runic inscriptions; even the title seems a few words too long. It takes about an hour for Crystal Skull to deliver on its promise of chic, robust, familiar entertainment...