Word: languidness
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Although two previous attempts at setting up a coalition government for Laos (in 1957 and 1962) ended in failure, many foreign diplomats believe that the new accord has a good chance of succeeding. For one thing, the languid, peace-loving Laotians have been steadily involved in the Southeast Asia war since the mid-1960s, and clearly are more than ready to see an end to hostilities. One hopeful sign: the number of reported military incidents has dropped from a high of 223 a week last February to about three or four a week. Yet another favorable omen is that Hanoi...
...born nine days before Christmas, so his mother named him Noël. That festive holiday spirit swirled around Noël Coward and his works throughout his life. His plays, musicals, and revues were marvelous parties. To the tinkle of cocktail glasses, he arched the languid magic wand of his cigarette holder and summoned up clever, dashing men and svelte, seductive women who danced divinely, sang bittersweetly and tottered into the tinseled dawn. None of it was remotely real, but it was often great fun, and that suited Coward perfectly to the very day the party ended last week...
Godfather. The idea is elegance-a calculatedly casual, languid elegance suggesting an evanescent Fitzgerald memory of the summer of '22. "To want to walk out on the lawn wearing a white silk shirt and white flannels presents a very rich, dreamlike atmosphere," says New York Designer Ralph Lauren, whose Polo label has looked longingly back at the '20s for some time. There are dissenters inevitably. Designers Galanos and Halston view Gatsby by any name as a banana-oil slick. It is "not an influence on truly fashionable people," says Halston, whose clients include Jackie Onassis and Mrs. William...
...variety of climate. There can be few more vivid ways of finding this out than to fly suddenly down from Peking to Canton in the early days of November, exchanging the brisk cold, the austere browns and russets of a northern autumn for the rich greens and the sensuous, languid heat of the tropics. The contrast is greater than moving from New England to Miami at the same time of the year. To leave Peking is to leave an almost Russian-style city ?monumental, dogmatically laid out along enormous avenues, dwarfing the population and evoking a sense of enormous power...
...said that for a year she read about Holiday and listened only to her recordings. The product supports Ross, who offers a sensitive interpretation of Holliday which shows that she went beyond a superficial investigation of Lady Day's personality. For instance, Holliday was well know for being languid, but Ross plays her as a normally vivacious woman whose lethargy is a byproduct of an addiction to heroin. Unfortunately, while her acting should draw no complaints, the fact that she is Diana Ross intrudes into the story. This is not due to her singing (she altered her style to sound...