Word: formality
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...when people with neither experience nor inhibition try their hand at something new. Opened last month, the 84-room hotel - housed in an immaculately restored 1924 shophouse - is owned by first-time hotelier Geeson Lawadinata, and is the vision of first-time designer Michael Tan, who amazingly professes no formal design training. Not that you can tell. Extravagance is the order of the day, with Venetian crystal chandeliers, Victorian-style wall sconces, beaded lamps and gilded mirrors abounding in a space richly bathed in crimson, gold and black. Textures such as faux snakeskin, suede, silk and organza add gloriously theatrical...
Summers issued a formal apology for his remarks in a letter posted on his website Wednesday night...
Machover thinks formal notation systems are restrictive. "You would never tell a 5-year-old to imitate an existing painting," he says. "You just give them paint and guidance and let them do the rest." Although there's no definitive evidence that electronic music toys help kids become better musicians, Symphony Painter does make composing fun--and that may be music to some parents' ears. --By Wilson Rothman
...Cubs game, his frequent rounds at charity golf tournaments--as a chance to recreate the spontaneous charge of Second City. "The best thing I do all year is Pebble Beach," he says. "There's 18 greens and 18 tees. That's like 36 shows--and that's just the formal rooms...
...Evanno, under investigation for intelligence work "undermining the fundamental interests of the nation" in their purported contacts with Syrian secret services and Iraqi insurgents. The officials will question Julia himself later this month - and may even ask legislators to lift his parliamentary immunity so he can be placed under formal investigation. "If the vote were today, the immunity would not only be lifted, but Julia would be excluded from our party," warns an official in the ruling conservative Union for a Popular Movement (UMP). Why turn on a fellow rightist? In part due to Julia's attack on the government...