Word: maxime
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...that vintage sold at auction for nearly $25,000. Grace Kelly requested that it be served at her wedding to Prince Rainier, Elizabeth Taylor celebrated her 1961 Oscar win over a bottle of it, and Aristotle Onassis was known to keep a chilled bottle at the ready at Maxim's restaurant in Paris. Marilyn Monroe, a devout fan of Dom Pérignon '53, sipped it throughout fittings for the dress she wore to John F. Kennedy's birthday celebration in 1962 and stocked a whole car full for a road trip with Danish paramour Hans Jorgen Lembourn. On the silver...
...American ethos. It is, in fact, a relatively recent addition to the American canon of values. Assuming that it is unassailable and that attacking it will doom any environmental program to marginality is to confer more legitimacy onto it than it actually deserves. There is an old Yankee maxim that goes “use it up, wear it out, make do, or do without” At one time, this resourcefulness was a fixture of the American cultural constellation—and there is no reason it cannot be brought back...
...Language of Color” is the comprehensive epitome of the maxim “show, don’t tell,” with its digital media, still-life photos, and taxidermy specimens. The exhibit, which is on display at the Harvard Museum of Natural History through Sept. 6, 2009, is an engaging, in-depth examination of color in the animal world that looks at both its purpose and uses. Upon entering the exhibit, the first thing to catch the eye is a display box containing stuffed birds, where the electric, turquoise-shaded feathers of the Spangled Cotinga bird...
...announced by the 15 eurozone countries to buck up banks and credit systems. "We should stop looking at stock market activity the way a mouse watches a cat, and start thinking in the medium-term," the Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Paul Juncker told German radio Deutschlandfunk. Belying his own maxim, however, Juncker suggested additional efforts European governments may be planning to make should "impress the financial markets...
...with next." In fact, if prices come down a little more, he's thinking of buying a few properties of his own, perhaps a villa for when he grows older and starts a family. "My grandfather had a saying: Land will never let you down." That's a maxim that could be severely tested - even in Dubai...