Word: lantern-lit
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Fados, the bittersweet songs of Portugal, are like rare vintage wines: they don't travel well. They are best savored in the small lantern-lit taverns tucked away in the cobblestone alleys of old Lisbon. There, in an atmosphere drenched with pathos and the aroma of musky wine and spicy sausages, the black-draped fadistas cry out in voices quavering with anguish. Against a back ground of weeping guitars, they sing of sin and love gone wrong, of wasted lives and impending doom. Fado means destiny, and its baleful laments are more than the fatalistic Portuguese can bear...
Japanese diplomats throw lavish, lantern-lit parties, make it a point to show up at all independence celebrations of emerging nations. Their sales have also benefited from the unexpected: Japan's National brand TV sets became an immediate bestseller in Nigeria largely because the name inspired patriotic fervor and many people thought that the sets must be a local product. "I never argue with them," says Mutsuhi Furuya, representative of the Japan External Trade Organization in Nigeria...
...tranquil, beautiful seaport perched in a natural amphitheater overlooking the East China Sea, Nagasaki (pop. 380,000) prefers to be known as Japan's most cosmopolitan city. Its tourist bureau seldom steers visitors to atomic landmarks, celebrates instead the city's lantern-lit nightclubs and restaurants (specialties: sugared shaddock, peeled loquats), its 17th century Dutch colony and the Nipponese-Gothic mansion, built on a hilltop by a British tycoon in 1850, that Nagasaki fondly identifies as the "original home'' of Puccini's Madama Butterfly...
Although Pierian's interest in the feminine sex is nothing new, it has not always been so aesthetic. In the earlier years of its existence, the Sodality regarded the serenading of Boston belles as one of its handsomest traditions. Lantern-lit expeditions of romance-bent musicians would start from Porter's Tavern in North Cambridge, and comb the land from Brattle Street and Brookline to Jamaica Plain and Beacon Hill...
...Sodality regarded the serenading of Boston belles as one of its handsomest traditions. Lantern-lit expeditions started from Porter's Tavern in North Cambridge, ended in musical vigils in Brattle Street, Brookline, Jamaica Plain and Beacon Hill. Legend says one session ended in a musical salute to a Harvard president's daughter while she was in labor pains...