Word: elegante
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He begins with a loving re-creation of the small Jewish community in the northwest Italian region of Piedmont, where he was born in 1919. His ancestors resembled argon, the author explains, because it is an inactive gas: "They were inert in their inner spirits, inclined to disinterested speculation, witty...
Exactly where Mr. and Mrs. Arnold honeymooned, no one seems to know. In fact nothing in the Dover town records or in the town history books mentions Arnold or his famous poem. If the Arnolds stopped at the grandest of the town's hotels in 1851, it would have been...
There were other blinding flashes of fear: diplomats cut down on fashionable European streets, mines strewn in the Red Sea, even the awards ceremony for Nobel Peace Prizewinner Bishop Desmond Tutu disrupted by a bomb threat. From the elegant Libyan embassy on a leafy London square, a mad spray of...
George Bush has family portraits and decorated Christmas trees in both of his elegant offices. Nancy Reagan has shaded the private quarters in her favorite yellows and peaches, and state entertaining is a pageantry of grace and beauty. The gray squirrels come up to the windows of the Oval Office...
Linda Ronstadt: Lush Life (Asylum). Also starring Nelson Riddle and his orchestra. This is a sequel to last year's surprising smash, What's New, in which Ronstadt, her arranger-conductor and his orchestra proved that anything old could be renewed again, probably-given this kind of talent...