Word: elegante
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The Masai are a handsome and arrogant and elegant people, filled with a serene self-satisfaction that amounts to a collective narcissism. Whites in East Africa for generations have been infatuated with the Masai. Yet certain details of their lives, like the flies that sometimes cake their lips and eyelids...
Given the public taste for upscale homicide, the case became known as the Main Line murders. This is not as elegant as it sounds. Echoes in the Darkness and Engaged to Murder have nothing to do with Grace Kelly's relatives or rowing on the Schuylkill, although some of the...
St. Francisville, about an hour's drive from Baton Rouge, contains several beautifully-restored antebellum plantation homes. The most elegant is Rosedown, which features gardens modeled after Versailles. The tour-guides in the house are charming ladies who cultivate the hospitality that is the South.
The question nags at directors of suspense movies: What would Hitch have done? Like Walt Disney with cartoons, Alfred Hitchcock was thought not just to have invented a film genre but to have patented it. His trademarks -- the mortician's wit, the danse-macabre pacing, the elegant economy of his...
Not everything was extreme, of course. A long scarlet dress opens to reveal a white lace swimsuit. Playing games with proportion has often been done by designers. There were also lyrical bare-midriff gowns and little silk frocks that will be widely copied. One elegant fantasy had a delicate jeweled...