Word: elegante
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Today, the elegant Georgian house next to Emerson Hall serves as a bureaucratic and social center for the administration. The Corporation and Board of Overseers claim it for their offices during the day, and exquisite University functions are often hosted there at night.
For the feuding members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, the time had come for another showdown. Oil ministers from eight of the 13 OPEC countries gathered last week in London's elegant Grosvenor Square at a five-story, red-brick Georgian mansion where the delegate from the...
The answer turns out to be Le Carré. The Little Drummer Girl (its title an oblique allusion to a Christmas song set in the Holy Land) is both a daring departure from his earlier work and a triumph of narrative control. The long duel between George Smiley of British...
The pulse rate of Vortex is as slow and regular as a long-distance runner's. The acting is uneven, from Russo's Method overacting to Lunch's delicious coarseness as she tries to remember her lines. None of this matters much. What does is the look...
Also lacking imagination are Irene Costello and Jeff Schantz's costumes, which, while featuring yards of lame and hundreds of sequins, are nevertheless ho-hum, large scale versions of the homemade costumes mom used to fashion for the kingergarten pageant. Notable exceptions, however, are the strangely abstract and witty outfits...