Word: elegante
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Biographer Michael Meyer, accustomed to tamer Scandinavians (as in his 1971 Ibsen: A Biography), fails to address the fearful Strindberg paradox as forthrightly as he might. He is long on description, short and cautious on analysis. But in the process of collecting data from Strindberg's life and from some...
To a Hollywood that capered through the Depression, Welles introduced the cinema of melancholy. With Citizen Kane--a tale of power and love, and the loss of both--American film found the dark, seductive side of its own success story. For the next decade, domestic dramas, spy pictures and detective...
Robert Rauschenberg refers to Miyake easily as "an international artist, the most influential artist in Japan. He's supporting the whole of the artistic community." Miles Davis likes to remark that Miyake "designs the way I think about music," and, pressed a little on the subject, comes up with some...
The answer seemed to be both yes and no. As Gorbachev and his elegant wife Raisa boarded a blue-and-white Aeroflot Il-62 jetliner for the return voyage to Moscow last Saturday, the Soviet leader could not claim any great victory on substance. On the public relations front, Gorbachev...
The most put-upon worker of all at the anniversary bash may be the U.N.'s chief of protocol, Aly Teymour. Most of his time is spent not hobnobbing at elegant dinners but stuck in traffic on the way to Kennedy Airport to welcome visiting statesmen who jet in at...