Word: elegante
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For his appearance at Oxford, Simpson dressed in a black Donna Karan jacket, a white shirt, a gray sweater vest and a gray-and-black-striped Armani tie--creating a faux morning-coat effect that made him look like an extra from Four Weddings and a Funeral. After receiving a...
Spike Lee and Mike Leigh, Gong Li and Jennifer Jason Leigh were all on the Riviera to peddle their films at dozens of press conferences and at luncheon interviews. Gong Li fared better at a posh dinner for her film Temptress Moon; her tablemate was not some grubby journalist but...
Occasional verse for such magazines as the Atlantic and the New Yorker has earned Adair in recent years a coterie of fans (other poets notable among them). One dazzled critic (Eric Ormsby) has called her "the best American poet since Wallace Stevens." Adair is less gnomic than Stevens, more passionately...
BOOKS . . . ANTS ON THE MELON: 'Ants on the Melon' (Random House; 158 pages; $21) is something of a miracle: the first book of poetry by an 83-year-old woman, sightless now from glaucoma, who resides at a retirement community in Claremont, California. But this slim volume distills a lifetime...
All in all, Boston Ballet's latest performance of "The Sleeping Beauty" is a highly-publicized parade of elegant costumes and graceful classical ballet...and very little else. The layers upon layers of sequins in the dancers' tutus sparkle beautifully, but the show's general atmosphere does not. The show...