Word: lilt
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Oscar season isn't just an awards show; it's the soirees that help provide glamour and lilt. And for planners, that can mean erecting the Cheops pyramid nearly overnight. "When you're building a party in a tent in the middle of a parking lot, quite a bit has to happen," says Cyd Wilson, an IN STYLE contributing editor who does the magazine's Golden Globes and Oscar bashes as well as PEOPLE's Screen Actors Guild Awards party. "We started a month earlier to compensate," she says. Yet last Monday she and her staff, still bleary from...
...were injured in violent clashes between opponents and supporters of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Opposition leaders, who accuse Aristide of corruption, called a two-day general strike, which shut down many businesses in Port-au-Prince. MEANWHILE IN THE U.K. ... Ye Cannae Dae That To many, the Scottish lilt is charming and even rather attractive (think Sean Connery). But not, it seems, to the British Foreign Office, which was forced to apologize for denying a Russian student a visa to study English in Scotland on the grounds that she would have difficulty understanding the accent. What could they mean? When...
...were served in their own individual pots, along with sticks of rock sugar, honey and milk. The accompanying snacks arrived on a three-tiered serving platter. Sipping our fragrant blends and nibbling on white chocolate cherry scone spread with delicious clotted cream, we could almost detect the slightest English lilt in our normal (American and Australian, respectively) speech patterns. The sandwiches were high-class variations on the traditional cucumber and watercress variety, and included carrot mousse on zucchini bread with curry butter, shrimp salad on scallion bread with chipotle-lime butter and sesame chicken on whole grain bread with watercress...
...Zhou gives Hollywood its bittersweet lilt. When she disappears two-thirds of the way through, the movie descends into jarring absurdism, replete with violent mutilations, an unexpected murder and unhygienic pork butchery. Pigs become nearly indistinguishable from people, and Chan just rescues his work from an unsatisfying dissonance with an ending that returns to the film's essential sweetness. Life in Hong Kong may be getting bleaker by the day, but Fruit Chan knows the lights of Hollywood haven't gone...
With a salary of $1 million per episode of Friends, she knew that she would have to take a drastic pay cut for the low-budget movie, and that she would have to de-Rachel herself--drop the bouncy walk and the fluttery hand movements. "There's no lilt in Justine," says Aniston. "Life is hanging on her shoulders. On our first day of rehearsing, my acting coach said, 'Sit on your hands.' You don't realize you do these things. No wonder everybody says, 'She's Rachel, she's Rachel, she's Rachel...