Word: elegante
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Margaret hopes gloves are coming back into fashion. "I've about run out of my stockpile," she says. Now 64, a widow since 1978, Margaret always wears a long dress because "I just feel more elegant, to be blunt about it." She is horrified by the idea of a...
Lagerfeld, on the face of things, is used to being happy. Certainly he has had a lifetime of being rich. Born in Hamburg to an elegant Westphalian mother and a father who owned one of Europe's largest dairy companies, young Karl grew up in the countryside of Schleswig...
There are also fleeting suggestions, beneath all his mocking worldliness, of a slightly unquiet spirit. He is a demon for order and travels to the doctor's office with a shoehorn so he can replace his footwear easily after an exam. "He thinks he's ugly," says Ines...
It's abandoned after dark, without elegant restaurants or high society. Most of the shops are boarded up; the Renaissance Center has gone bankrupt. There are virtually no movie theaters here. Oh, there's the old Fox Theatre, with its cavernous, yet ornately designed interior, but it's gone triple...
DVORAK: Serenade for Strings, Op. 22; Czech Suite, Op. 39 (Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, Armin Jordan, conductor; Erato). Dvořák is best known for his last three symphonies (including the inescapable "New World") and his omnipresent Cello Concerto, but many have long admired his smaller works. The...