Word: elegante
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A group of women sit quietly chatting, their heads bowed over needlepoint and knitting, in the gracious parlor at Bourn Hall. The mansion's carved stone mantelpieces, rich wood paneling and crystal chandeliers give it an air of grandeur, a reflection of the days when it was the seat of...
What Iglesias has done, more than any other performer, is bring back to popular music the romantic style of the '40s and '50s. He is not androgynous like Michael Jackson, but neither is he aggressively masculine like Tom Jones. He is instead the elegant male, well dressed and...
She isn't planning to be the best anthropologist, but she is planning to be the most famous," the elegant anthropologist Ruth Benedict once observed of her prize student at Barnard.
Closer to earth and water, however, there was plenty of spectacular diving competition at the Games. Since 1980, China has been sending powerful men's and women's diving teams, perhaps the best in the world, to international meets. They specialize in acrobatics and "ripped" entries -eerily splashless...
Early in the Olympics, high up in the temporary bleachers flanking the swimming pool, I found myself sitting beside John Naber, the winner of four gold medals in Montreal in 1976. Across the way on the superstructure of the diving platforms, the women divers were collected on the various levels...