Word: ethiopian
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...world's wit were rolled into one portly fellow. PETER USTINOV, who died last week at 82, once boasted, "I have Russian, German, Spanish, Italian, French and Ethiopian blood in my veins" (his great-grandfather wedded the Princess of Ethiopia). He spoke six languages, and a few others of his own comic invention. With gifts too wide-ranging to be contained in one art form, he wrote hit plays (Romanoff and Juliet) and books of nonfiction and short stories. He could be an excellent film director (Billy Budd) and a serious Shakespearean (King Lear at Stratford, Ont.). He won Supporting...
...billion-a-year flagship--which was losing ground as the No. 1 cosmetics brand in the prestige category and whose core customer had crept up into the fortysomething age range--an image makeover. She lobbied successfully to bring on Murphy as a spokeswoman alongside veteran Elizabeth Hurley, signed Ethiopian-born Liya Kebede to the company's first major contract with a black model and replaced brand lensman Steven Meisel with Mario Testino, whose naturalistic aesthetic seemed more suited to the times. And she stuck with the same small cadre of creatives for each campaign. "We used to use one stylist...
...looks out the window at the small group of friends and relatives who have come to wish him luck. "I registered that moment like a photograph," he recalls. Abdi Salan spends the first five days of his journey heading northwest by bus to the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa. A Somali friend of the family offers him a place to stay, and he begins asking around about how to make his next move. He knows Sudan...
...three nights later, on Oct. 4, he is pushed outside to a jeep and a small bus. The vehicles shuttle passengers to the beach, where a dinghy ferries them to a white-and-green fishing boat. Some 85 people board the boat - two Egyptians, a Tunisian, a Libyan, an Ethiopian and the rest Somalis, including 13 women, one of them pregnant. They occupy every centimeter of space. This is not how Abdi Salan - who doesn't know how to swim - had imagined the crossing. But nothing has turned out as he'd expected, and he feels lucky to have...
...Communications, this mother of two small boys hopes to attract younger customers with an edgier ad campaign while remaining true to the company's roots. Her latest projects: overseeing the launch of the fragrance Beyond Paradise (the ad features a tune by Madonna) and bringing models Carolyn Murphy and Ethiopian-born Liya Kebede into the Estee fold. "Aerin is the perfect bridge between tradition and modernity," says Estee Lauder's president, Patrick Bousquet-Chavanne. --By Dody Tsiantar/New York