Word: leighton
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...Then there's the Sinophile John Leighton Stuart, son of missionaries to China and U.S. ambassador to Chiang's Nanjing government. At the time, the real-life Mao vilified Stuart as an agent of American aggression toward the communists. In the film, Stuart, as well as the U.S. State Department, is lukewarm toward Chiang and the KMT - reflecting, perhaps, Beijing's desire to maintain the momentum of its improving diplomatic ties with Washington. (Last November, the Chinese acceded to a four-decade-old request by Stuart's family to have his ashes buried in a cemetery in Hangzhou, near Shanghai...
Despite the outfits' impracticality, celebrities and the extremely wealthy will occasionally wear a designer's outrageous creations in public. Actresses Diane Kruger and Leighton Meester frequently show up to events in runway gear. Victoria Beckham - who debuted her clothing label at this season's Fashion Week - has paraded around in everything from a tutu to something that made her look like a space robot. Last May, Madonna wore a pair of Louis Vuitton bunny ears to a gala for the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute. Yet even at a place called the Costume Institute, the headpiece looked...
...sports teams.” Payack also suggested that the University’s decision to change the John F. Kennedy School of Government to the Harvard Kennedy School may have had some bearing. “It never hurts to find a recognizable name,” said Leighton W. Klein, a Web journalist at the Kennedy School’s Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy. “It never hurts to cite a University that represents authority and knowledge.” Payack said that Harvard has been successful in branding itself...
...sexually unattainable by both law and taboo. The magazine’s most recent cover relishes its role as an extreme-makeover guru, peddling a sort of sexual plastic surgery. Pushing their Gossip Girl personas’ decided lack of naiveté to a new extreme, Blake Lively and Leighton Meester jointly lick a cone topped with two scoops of ice cream in an unapologetic allude to the phallic. Blake’s innocent “come-hither” gaze and her prominent cleavage combine with the child-like sweetness of the strawberry-ice-cream-cone-turned...
...Odyssey,” the epic poem that she is working on for her Institute project, as an investigation of the difficult territories into which writers sometimes venture. The epic is based on her experiences as a wife whose spouse was diagnosed with cancer. While caring for her husband, Leighton, in a Wales hospital, Lewis spent long periods of time taking in both the details of her environment and the nature of a period of potential loss. “A Hospital Odyssey” reads like a traditional epic, albeit with a modern bent: in meter, straightforward, and descriptive...