Word: pleasanter
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...town, and is as colorful and entertaining as a Bollywood set, laid out around what the hotel claims is the largest swimming pool in India. Immediately adjacent to the Park Hyatt (and rather easier on the wallet) is the Kenilworth Beach Resort, tel: (91-832) 275 4871, with very pleasant rooms in the mid-range category...
Hillary Clinton's palpable humanity is the pleasant surprise of Living History. Unlike her husband, she is not larger than life. She is a recognizable, somewhat overmatched human being in an utterly ridiculous situation. She is paralyzed and discombobulated by events; she gets angry; she cries; she admits to being brittle. "We were both in the eye of the storm," she writes, "but I seemed to be buffeted by every gust of wind, while Bill just sailed along...
...reasonable rates, subsidized dining and a decent choice of recreational facilities appeal, then consider private clubs the next time you hit the road. Naturally, you will need to be a member or belong to a club that has a reciprocal arrangement. Check with your club secretary, and some pleasant surprises could await...
...with Yorke confessing, "No one likes a smart-ass, but we all like stars/That wasn't my intention/I did it for a reason." Even A Punch-Up at a Wedding, which is lyrically cruel (and really appears to be about a fight at a wedding), mixes anger with a pleasant groove...
...they're not, especially when you consider that all the initial tracking on the terrifically produced Everything Must Go was done live. The music is also where the irony is. It's so airy and chipper that when mixed with the lead weight of the lyrics, it induces a pleasant sense of numbness that, given a few drinks, might be mistaken for depth. Everything Must Go doesn't have the relentless catchiness of their late-'70s work, but Fagen and Becker do seem happy in their advancing misery. That's the immortality they share. --By Josh Tyrangiel