Word: glowed
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...lapped up the singer’s newfound on-stage exuberance.Bringing the energy down, Valensi crouched behind a white synthesizer and Casablancas took the center spotlight in the soft “Ask Me Anything,” while the rest of the band exited the stage. The blue glow that cast across the audience from dozens of cell phones was a fitting post-millennial substitute for the yellow-orange flicker of lighters of the bygone 1990s. Yet soon enough, emotions pushed to fever pitch with the performance of “Ize of the World...
...table with a plastic washbasin filled with pearls. Jain families?members of an ascetic religious group that observes strict dietary rules?run the businesses; Muslims are the expert craftsmen. Later I notice a poster of Mecca in a workshop where four men facet lemon quartz in a weird green glow. Gauri Shankar Dangayach, production manager of one of Gem Palace's cutting units, leads De Taillac down several side streets with open gutters and into one of a dozen look-alike buildings. We go up the labyrinthine stairs and suddenly arrive in a tidy workshop with a magnificent view...
...phrase apres-ski conjures up crowded bars, the sudden, fierce glow of a shot of schnapps, voices straining over blaring music and melting ice puddling around snow boots. But in the tiny village of St. Christoph, 1,800 m up in Austria's famed Arlberg skiing region, the family-owned five-star Hospiz Hotel and nearby Hospiz Alm ski lodge offer a more refined way to kick back after a day on the slopes. Together they boast one of the world's prime collections of Bordeaux-much of it in large-format bottles...
...phrase apres-ski conjures up crowded bars, the sudden, fierce glow of a shot of schnapps, voices straining over blaring music and melting ice puddling around snow boots. But in the tiny village of St. Christoph, 1,800 m up in Austria's famed Arlberg skiing region, the family-owned five-star Hospiz Hotel and nearby Hospiz Alm ski lodge offer a more refined way to kick back after a day on the slopes. Together they boast one of the world's prime collections of Bordeaux - much of it in large-format bottles. Some of these babies range upward...
...Gail Jones' seductive new novel, his captive audience is young Australian Alice Black, who is researching her book, The Poetics of Modernity. And over the course of Dreams of Speaking (Vintage; 214 pages), a succession of machines are summoned, from the Xerox copier to the neon tube, to glow in the novel's velvety darkness. Here the things which bring people together also keep them apart. "I wanted to read certain omnipresent phenomena through this ambivalence," says Jones via e-mail. "The telephone for example is often represented as an estranging and distancing mechanism. I decided to go the other...