Word: elegante
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Yimou's latest film "To Live" starring Gong Li and Ge You breaks new ground for the director. Simple and elegant, it portrays the life of an ordinary man. Yimou's past films concentrated on extravagance, using the camera more as a palette and the screen as his canvas. His...
2. The Afterlife and Other Stories by John Updike (Knopf). Again, elder writesman Updike proves his durability by turning out yet another splendid collection of elegant short stories about -- no, no, stay with him -- Wasp geezers who golf. Now and then, unblocked metaphors rise up shrieking: one duffer is resigned...
Style meets substance in this elegant hammock from Heliotrope. Even better, no trees are required. So graceful that it looks as if it could barely support the average weekend catnapper, the Zephyr is sturdy, stable and weather resistant. It can be parked anywhere. Supported by a single center bar, through...
Eight gay men on three summer weekends: a simple device for Terrence McNally's elegant meditations on manhood and friendship, maturity and mortality. This witty, generous, intimate epic (in a pristine off-Broadway production directed by Joe Mantello) follows McNally's Lips Together, Teeth Apart and A Perfect Ganesh. By...
Norman Parkinson: Photographs 1935-1990 (Rizzoli; $65). "I do not promote the idea that photography is an art form," said the late British fashion photographer, who attributed his success to "hobgoblins that live inside the camera." An impish lightness of being animates these superb images, all of them marked by...