Word: manos
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...straight, lowers her voice and deploys a laser-like glare. "You need to do better than that," she will say. "You can't sit there and tell me that is the best you can do." If you continue to resist, she will dismiss her entourage, then go at it, mano a mano, until someone relents. Says a close Rice adviser who has witnessed her technique: "The phrase 'hammer it out' comes to mind...
...CLOTHES have represented refined luxury for an A-list clientele for more than 30 years. So in 2005, when the Italian designer finally introduced Armani Privé, his collection of women's haute couture, his female customers were elated. Now it's the men's turn. Giorgio Armani Fatto a Mano su Misura (Hand Made to Measure) will be Armani's first foray into custom-made suits. Although there are just two options for jacket styles, the possibilities for a one-of-a-kind design are limitless, thanks to a plethora of choices of fabrics, buttons and pocket placement. "With...
...party from his application form. The police have indicated that they may quiz Blair in the course of their investigation. "This mess was inevitable," says Labour M.P. and former Europe Minister Denis MacShane. "The Tories had a deeper war chest and we needed money to fight them mano a mano. The only solution is state funding for parties...
...left dangling like a proverbial hanging chad. That said, I still rejoice in the restoration of narrative tension, and this fact alone makes Season 7 worth watching. On the cusp of a mud-slinging free-for-all, Santos and Vinick have finally agreed to duke it out, mano-a-mano. Stay tuned next week for “The Debate,” which, in proper network gimmicky fashion, will be broadcast as a live episode. And you thought they jumped the shark way back in Season 2 with that whole hurricane-strikes-Washington thing...
...that they have not produced clear physical or documentary evidence that any of the glue and lampblack on the Sistine was put there by Michelangelo himself. James Beck cites a phrase in an account by Ascanio Condivi, a Renaissance biographer, about Michelangelo applying "so to speak, the ultima mano" (final touches) to the mighty fresco cycle; but Condivi did not say what medium these touches were in. Giorgio Vasari (1511-74), whose Lives of Italian artists is a fundamental source on the Sistine, describes how "Michelangelo desired to retouch some parts a secco, painting backgrounds, draperies and skies in ultramarine...