Word: elegante
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DIED. ROBERT QUINE, 61, versatile punk guitarist who played with Lou Reed and Richard Hell; from a suspected suicide; in New York City. As a buttoned-down law graduate, he lent an elegant and intellectual side, as well as stylish guitar licks, to the rough rock scene of the 1970s...
Given the Sturm und Drang of his life, you would fully expect Modigliani to draw like Egon Schiele, tormented figures tied into knots by their own perplexities. Instead he deployed the most serene line in the whole School of Paris, a line that stretches back four centuries to the elongated...
Von Trier professes to idolize Leth's 1967 short The Perfect Human, an elegant, mock-anthropological treatise on man's imperfectability. But to Von Trier, a hero is still a potential patsy. He dares Leth to remake The Perfect Human five different times, each under bizarre conditions imposed by his...
Unlike the elegant prose of novelist Anchee Min's 1994 memoir Red Azalea (Min was similarly plucked from serfdom to join Madam Mao's cultural crusade), Li's straightforward narrative rarely delves into agonizing emotional battles, nor does Li use his experiences to comment on social and political issues. Mao...
After all the contentiousness about current politics, a celebration of a grand old style. The closing-night party featured a vivid display of fireworks and a lavish concert of Cole Porter songs rendered by the singing stars - Kevin Kline, Ashley Judd, Natalie Cole, Alanis Morrissette and Sheryl Crow - of the...