Word: gorgeousity
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...hitherto been blithely unaware of its existence, this writer included.) I loved every minute of it; I watched the World Cup on three continents, in bars in Hong Kong, pubs in London, and?it's a tough job, this?sitting on the grass in Aspen, Colorado, on a gorgeous June day with the Maroon Bells etched against blue sky. And I saw enough to be convinced, again, that everything you have read?not least in these pages?about the World Cup as an expression of global community and a unique focus for a nonthreatening, "soft" nationalism is true...
...friend is her large orange bag, in which she carries her laptop, her iPal, her calendar, sometimes stickers, her notebook, and a small stock of Vitamin Water. Without her big orange bag, she is lost. Without Haven’s stock of optimism, kindness, amazing ideas, gorgeous writing, and unfailing ability to make an okay story into a beautiful one, FM would be lost. She is our big orange...
Marina is the glamorous and gorgeous daughter of the eminent liberal journalist Murray Thwaite, whose overweening intelligence and charisma keep her in the thrall of an Electra-like adulation of her father. Since her graduation from Brown, she has been wallowing in an abortive effort to finish her book on “how complex and profound cultural truths—our mores entire—could be derived from” the evolution of children’s fashion. The project—like its author—is silly and self-indulgent, a perfect example of the frivolity...
...York entry point for generations of immigrants, was magnificently renovated. But the hospital compound on the south side, where many arrivals were held in quarantine, was left to decay. For five years, Wilkes roamed the disintegrating buildings, with their cracked plaster and peeling paint, to make pictures of their gorgeous decrepitude. (Congress has since allocated money to preserve them.) Decline has never looked more haunting...
...commissioned mural, due to rotate each year. Currently on view is Chiho Aoshima’s whimsical “The Divine Gas,” which manages to turn an image of a girl passing gas into a dainty, stylized, and oddly compelling work.The museum includes a gorgeous theater as well as educational rooms, but these are secondary organs to the gallery space—the real focus of the building’s mission.The galleries are floored with large, polished concrete slabs, the grid mirrored by the skylit paneled ceiling. During a tour of the galleries...