Word: elegante
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
You make your statement with what you have. Crandall Addington, slim as a whip, whose year-round gamble is oil and gas exploration in South Texas, wears an elegant suit, a diamond stickpin, alligator boots, a neatly trimmed beard and a full-rigged Stetson. Tuna Lund, a huge fellow from...
Elliot Loves, which opened off-Broadway last week in an elegant staging by Mike Nichols, starts with a solo lament by a middle-aged man (Anthony Heald) on the verge of proposing marriage. It ends with him and his intended (Christine Baranski) having their first really honest conversation, via the...
Those shopping for a philosophy of life could do no better than to look to the works of Reynolds Price. Since his 1962 debut with A Long and Happy Life, the elegant North Carolina novelist and poet has been examining the eternal puzzle of families as they love and hurt...
The preachings of the liberal West, Elegant argues, are undermined by the effectiveness of authoritarian Neo-Confucianism from Seoul to Tokyo to Taipei, from Beijing to Bangkok to Kuala Lumpur. Japan's energy comes from a disciplined adherence to the hierarchical loyalties demanded by the ancient philosophy. In Singapore, Lee...
Elegant, who draws on the tradition of the John Gunther series that included | Inside Europe Today, is tirelessly entertaining. His recollection of Indonesia under the demagogic strongman Sukarno casts history as comedy. His chapter on Australia is a lesson on how charm, wit and isolationism cannot save a country from...