Word: elegante
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When The Hives are onstage, they aim to look like a gang of Swedish pimps working the world's most elegant street corner. All five band members wear identical black dress shirts and trousers, set off by white shoes and fluorescent white ties folded to look like ascots. Offstage, the...
The punch line of Prague is that the characters never get there--they're stuck in the backwater of Budapest. Prague is the symbol of everything they feel they're missing, the place where "life waited ... waited with some goal, achievable yet elegant and thrilling." The irony is, 10 years...
Given their long history of choking in the crunch, it's fitting that the most elegant euphemism for sporting failure was invented by the English. You used to hear it all the time on BBC radio, when an England side was beaten, at Wembley or Twickenham or Lord's; at...
DIED. NANCY WHITE, 85, elegant, eminently proper editor of Harper's Bazaar during the 1960s, known throughout three marriages as Miss White; in New York City. Not nearly as ubiquitous as her primary rival, Vogue's Diana Vreeland, White kept apace with the tumultuous decade, infusing the magazine with photographs...
“We realized that there is a perfectly good scale already out there that everyone uses,” Harris said. “It is simple and elegant.”