Word: elegante
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For Ferragamo, the high heel was the pedestal on which he placed women. "The high heel gives a beautiful shape to the leg," he wrote. The crocodile uppers of a court shoe (a sort of dramatized pump) made for Marilyn Monroe in 1958 shoot back at a 45 degrees angle...
It consists of three objects -- a tower, a tube and a black box. Visitors enter through a silver-and-black-striped tower. The interior walls are 29-ft.- high, 6-in.-thick ice sheets, making a perfectly Scandinavian space -- frigid, shipshape, elegant and grave, a well-engineered mini-fjord. On...
WHEN FRED COUPLES STROLLS DOWN THE FAIRWAY, he often twirls his golf club as if it were a walking stick. To all appearances, he's out for a languorous constitutional in the park. Last week he strolled the elegant greenness of Augusta National, the citadel of American golf, and won...
Ironically, Ronald Reagan's 1986 tax reform was inspired in part by a golf- course conversation with George Shultz, his Secretary of State, who praised the same 1981 consumption-tax plan, authored by Stanford economists Robert Hall and Alvin Rabushka, on which Jerry Brown claims to have (very loosely) based...
With Arkansas Traveler, Michelle Shocked covers old musical ground with sensitivity and lyrical skill. She offers an elegant tribute to a controversial body of music