Word: elegante
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The complex plot offers interlocking instances of an eternal struggle between good and evil; in each case, the reader finds himself cunningly misled. Sprechman's theme, hinted rather than hammered at, is that life is a moral conundrum in which people are forced to make choices long before they can...
The title alone is provocative: Soap-Powders and Detergents. Will this be some arch exercise with dancers dressed up as bubbles or boxes? A soggy bit of social criticism? A spoof on Balanchine's Snowflake Waltz in The Nutcracker? No, Mark Morris' latest creation, commissioned by Dance Umbrella of Cambridge...
Although he was assured of an easy victory for his own National Assembly seat, no French politician campaigned harder during the recent parliamentary elections than Jacques Chirac. Hurling himself into the fray, Chirac traveled nearly 200,000 miles, visited some 170 districts and made 150 public appearances. For Chirac, who...
The juicy French farce starring Jean-Claude ("Baby Doc") Duvalier took several new turns last week. For starters, the former Haitian dictator brought a lawsuit against his French hosts. He charged that the government had mounted "multiple attacks on the personal liberties" of himself, his elegant wife Michele and the...
Camp that night was in a high, alpine meadow at the base of 10,035-ft. Goat Peak. Alas, the hot tub at the hut there was broken. But dinner was an elegant beef bourguignon. Caryl showed the foresight of a veteran trekker, never mind kick turns, by pulling a...