Word: elegante
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Before there was Gene Kelly (and after), there was Fred Astaire, the creator and apotheosis of movie dance. By the time Kelly got to Hollywood in 1941, Astaire had already completed his amazing series of RKO musicals with Rogers. Among other things, this run of eight films - from "Flying Down...
You could say Gene was a football player and Astaire, maybe, a tennis star of the Bill Tilden era. But who knew whether Astaire had biceps? Was there even a body inside those elegant clothes? If there was, it Astaire seemed relaxed; Kelly?s body was tense, like an Olympic...
The former advertising industry legend who "branded" America's favorite rice was named Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy & Public Affairs last September. Her mission: to counter the widespread anti-American sentiment in the Muslim world so craftily exploited by Osama bin Laden. But a Gallup Poll published Tuesday suggests...
DIED. PAULINE TRIGERE, 93, outspoken fashion diva whose elegant yet practical designs were worn by Bette Davis, Dina Merrill and the Duchess of Windsor; in New York City. The first major designer to hire an African-American model, Trigere was famously generous--and blunt. At one show, she explained the...
Bradby adroitly brings us right where we want to be: alongside a gun-toting twentysomething sidling up to the Shanghai Club's Long Bar. Clipped and believable, the dialogue is thankfully not laden with clichEd detective slang. And Bradby doesn't bore us by showing off all that historical research...