Word: graciously
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...Other Ones proves the Dead isn't dead. Judging from a recent San Francisco show, the band shares the Dead's spirit of improvisation and musical wanderlust. Still, without Garcia's gray-haired, gracious presence, there's a hole. No one in the band has his unlikely charisma. Nonetheless, it's gratifying to see Weir, Lesh and Hart together again; they communicate without words--with looks, with licks--and have a connection onstage that can come only from years of playing together. As for the new Other Ones, Hornsby's piano and Ellis' sax add jazzy warmth...
...moderate president, Mohammed Khatami, for liberalization and reconciliation with Washington. TIME Middle East bureau chief Scott MacLeod, in Tehran for the game, predicted that an Iran victory would create discomfort for Khatami's conservative foes by prompting massive demonstrations and by showing the "Great Satan" as fair players and gracious losers. While the country's conservative spiritual leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, sought to spin it as a "bitter defeat" for the "arrogant opponent," the fact that it was celebrated on the streets by hundreds of thousands of men and women mixing freely represented a challenge to Khamenei. "Getting people onto...
GUGGENHEIM BILBAO, 1997 Architect: Frank Gehry Shrouded in titanium, this massive gallery gleams like a voluptuous Spanish spaceship that has landed in an ancient town. Spectacular outside, gracious within...
...found her to be warm, thoughtful, straightforward, less than candid but always tactful, with a fine analytical mind with terrific retention of knowledge," Solnit says. "She was always gracious...
Rejecting his former party allies, and anyone who could be accused of espousing the values of an older and more gracious Chinese civilization, Mao drew his sustenance from the chanting crowds of Red Guards. The irony here was that from his youthful readings, Mao knew the story of how Shang Yang late in life tried to woo a moral administrator to his service. But the official turned down Shang Yang's blandishments, with the words that "1,000 persons going 'Yes, yes!' are not worth one man with a bold...