Word: elegante
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With its thrillingly melodic Tchaikovsky score, its elegant dances, its vivid evocation of a faraway fairy kingdom, The Sleeping Beauty is the quintessential classical ballet. Everyone should see it as a child and as an adult, and every company should have an exquisite production to offer.
THERE'S REALLY not much in Cambridge for the social critic. Where Oscar Wilde had the stuffy yet elegant mannerisms of the Victorian British upper class to sharpen his quill against, his Cantabrigian counterparts have nothing more than faded rebels and pseudo-punks as the objects of wit.
Many embassy staffers remember Violetta Seina, the Soviet receptionist in Spaso House, the Ambassador's residence. She is the Soviet agent alleged to have persuaded Sergeant Clayton Lonetree, 25, to help other agents enter the embassy at night and roam the building's most sensitive communications and CIA areas, where...
They say the House's elegant mosaic floors are particularly hard and bad for the joints. And the slouching postures and shifting feet seemed to bear this out. Reporters spend a lot of time waiting, and those who cover Congress have learned to show docile patience.
It was 20 years before he built his first building, but he remained in thrall to Corbusier and concrete and public architecture. Tange was well- suited by temperament and history to be a Corbusian. The French master's stark, sweeping forms have the purity of Zen monoliths, and concrete was...