Word: elegante
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In the summer of 1963 I joined the Soviet mission to the U.N. Ambassador Nikolai Fedorenko, head of the mission, was an elegant man and a lenient boss whose consuming interest in foreign affairs lay in China. He was a true expert, a member of the Academy of Sciences. As...
"JAZZ IS MORE than music--it's a way of life." It is with his theme in mid that Patrick Bradford and his cast of 10 female singers and seven musicians have created Mood Indigo II Within the elegant music box of the Agassiz Theater of Radcliffe Yard, they had...
One of the earliest champions of American food and regional dishes, as well as of outdoor cooking, Beard acknowledged in his autobiographical cookbook, Delights and Prejudices, that a strong influence on his career was his English-born mother. She operated a hotel noted for its fine food in Portland, where...
Not this time. Blood Simple (the title comes from Dashiell Hammett) works terse, elegant variations on a theme as old as the Fall; it subverts the film noir genre in order to revitalize it; it offers the satisfactions and surprises of a conniving visual style. Most important, it displays the...
Here is film noir stripped down to its basics--a road, a bar, a motel, an affair, a private eye, a murder, a pinwheeling series of betrayals--then customized with camera style. Strapped to a car fender, or sauntering at ankle level through a rowdy party, or tracking smoothly down...