Word: elegante
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When it came time to order that V-Day staple, roses, I tried two extremes. The elegant Justflowers.com looked promising, but the $70 hand-delivered roses I settled on were only just O.K. "They look a little dry," a friend pointed out. Although they were twice as big as the...
China's state media and the national skating federation have exhorted the pair to maintain their cultural integ-rity. Shen and Zhao say they don't want to turn their back on their culture, especially during the Olympics, when national pride counts as much as individual glory. But they also...
Before the 1982 return to civilian rule in Taiwan there was little destructive "progress," and many low brick and tile traditional houses have survived long after their mainland counterparts have been replaced with concrete boxes. The village of Shanhou was built at the end of the 19th century to house...
And then he gave one heck of an inaugural address - brief, elegant, generous, even inspiring.
DIED. TANAQUIL LE CLERCQ, 71, lithe-limbed ballerina who, while on tour in Copenhagen with husband George Balanchine in 1956, contracted polio, which left her paralyzed at 27 at the peak of her talent and fame; of pneumonia; in New York City. In an eerie foreshadow, Balanchine in 1944 had...