Word: elegante
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From its elegant mahogany bar to the cozy wicker furniture on its gingerbread verandas, Grand Hotel Oloffson in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, was a place for artists and writers to relax and reflect in style. Graham Greene set part of his novel The Comedians at the hotel, and Sir John...
Somehow the Washington social scene last week was lacking in the austerity that the International Monetary Fund has usually demanded from its cash- strapped borrowers. Instead, on the occasion of the annual joint meeting of the IMF and the World Bank, there were scores of parties, ranging from elegant dinners...
'Night, Mother is the screen adaptation of Marsha Norman's Tony-winning stage play about the confrontation between a mother and daughter before the daughter's suicide. In simple, elegant scenes the comfortable monotony of daily tasks is made eerie and frighteningly unusual.
But an elegant event meant black-tie only, ahigher price tag and fewer people. Some studentssaid they were upset about the price and theattire requirements.
The aging bosses seated at the defense table in the packed federal courtroom in lower Manhattan look harmless enough to be spectators at a Sunday-after noon boccie game. Anthony (Fat Tony) Salerno, 75, the reputed head of the Genovese crime family, sits aloof and alone, his left eye red...