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...Ellis' green fingers. The South Island's largest city is obsessive about greenery, famed for its meticulously manicured greenswards - many of them rose gardens in the English style - and fully deserving of its "Garden City" tagline. Edwardian punts float down the peaceful, winding river Avon, while helmeted sightseers glide past on futuristic Segway transporters. This combination of the genteel and the modern is typical of the place, which offers plenty of artistic, culinary and recreational opportunities against a panoramic backdrop of ocean, peaks and plains. "Christchurch is a beautifully green, clean, safe city," says Ellis, who appreciates that...
...this “science of happiness,” though, suggests that its appeal didn’t lie in the science alone. Pure data sets rarely inspire anyone to grand existential epiphanies. (Does anybody actually read the American Journal of Psychology for fun?) The recent offerings instead glide seamlessly from real cognitive scientific results into life prescriptions of the kind traditionally proffered by fields like religion and literature. The current overseer of the Grant Study results, George Vaillant, himself studied not psychology but history and literature when he was at Harvard; indeed, it may be the literary quality...
...easy to believe that she will never stop dancing as one watches her glide easily across the floor, her tapping feet emanating a chorus of sound...
With a soft techno beat throbbing in the background, waiters glide about the room offering canapés with champagne or, for the pious, glasses of orange juice. Men in business suits or jeans mix with women, some wearing above-the-knee skirts, some in long dresses and head scarves. It's a typical soirée for Cairo's well-heeled set, yet tonight there's more than the usual Middle East-meets-West twist. The revelers are here to toast an unlikely creative marriage, between Egyptian artist Azza Fahmy, who has spent decades reviving Arab jewelry traditions...
...hesitations of rhythm and intonation, but the orchestra coalesced as they moved through the movement. In the end, the airy, dreamy quality of the strings deepened beautifully into a rich sound. The second movement, depicting a ball, was remarkable for the violins, flutes, and clarinets’ ability to glide weightlessly as if dancing with tempered passion.In the plaintive third movement, “A Scene in the Country,” the HRO moved smoothly through the shifts of emotion, enhanced by breezy strings. The fourth movement depicted the vision of the artist’s procession...