Word: miguel
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...young artist from Mexico, by way of Manhattan, and his stunningly beautiful wife were set down by a Dutch packet steamer on the northern coast of Bali. Neither artist nor island would ever be the same. In two visits to Bali, amounting to just 20 months' residency, Miguel Covarrubias created an impressive body of drawings and paintings of the life of the island, and carried out the research for a dense 400-page book about its culture. Amazingly, Island of Bali, published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1937, is still the indispensable work on the island's complex rituals...
...quit ballet right before my senior year at [Buckingham Browne and Nichols]. One year later, at Harvard’s pre-frosh weekend, I noticed a ballroom dancing show listed in our events pamphlet. Interested, I decided to go. Standing in the back of the room, ironically behind Miguel Arguellas ’06, who would become my dance partner later that summer, watching all the ballroom dancers, I thought, “Oh my God. I have to do this.”Acting on a dancer’s passion, Mariko contacted the president of Harvard?...
...shut out of El Bulli and stuck in Madrid, don't fret. The city boasts plenty of innovative places. One of them is La Broche in the Miguel Angel hotel, whose executive chef, Sergi Arola, apprenticed with Adri. Dining at La Broche is an immersion in formalism. The color scheme of the dining room is sci-fi white, from the rectangular tables to the window blinds. The wait staff is all business (as is most of the clientele). The food, accelerating in flavor and intensity through a meal, seems conjured in Adri's lab: breaded fois custard cream with apricot...
...Miguel, I wanted to talk to you,” I began...
RETIRING. MIGUEL INDURAIN, 32, Spanish cyclist who won the Tour de France five consecutive times...