Word: orientale
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Vipers & Pearls. The name "Bergère" has nothing to do with shepherds, but was borrowed from the nearby Rue Bergère; the term "Folies" once denoted a lushly thicketed lovers' trysting ground, later came to mean a public place for open-air entertainment. When the Folies-Berg...
Morris is the first to admit that much of his inspiration comes from Pacific Coast landscape. To find it, he need go no farther than the front door of his cliffside house, where he lives with his wife, Sculptress Hilda Morris, and ten-year-old son David. "Frequently fog makes...
Not long after, the house passed from the Hastings family to another controversial figure, the Professor of Hebrew and Other Oriental Languages and for a while acting Praeses, Eliphalet Pearson. "I wonder," mused Dr. Holmes from his breakfast table, "if there are any such beings nowadays as the great Eliphalet...
Kismet is an effective honey-coated sleeping pill, but as entertainment it's about as thrilling as an old circus poster. Based on the Broadway musical of a couple of seasons ago, the film has one claim to fame--its sets support more gilt paint per square foot than those...
Last week, while 2,600 spectators chewed on their sembei (rice crackers), the curtain rose on Tokyo's 1956 season with Komaki's production of Swan Lake. The settings were Nordic in an almond-eyed kind of way, with an Oriental fishing junk afloat in a futuristic fjord...