Word: polished
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...look good in ours.”While women do not have to keep their hair cut short like the men, if it is long enough to touch their collars it must be put up in a bun. They cannot wear earrings, even studs, or makeup, or nail polish. On the shuttle one morning on the way to ROTC Williams discovers some traces of polish on her fingernails. “Does anyone have any nail polish remover?” she asks dryly.“Ooooh, busted!” a male cadet replies. These are not major...
...FASHION MODEL CAN QUIT WAITRESSING WHEN THE MAGAZINE COVERS AND RUNWAY GIGS ROLL IN, BUT MODELING CAN NEVER BE A FULL-FLEDGED CAREER until the beauty companies call. Polish-born Daria Werbowy recently hit the big time. Her contract with the French cosmetics brand Lancme, announced last year, is said to be $3 million...
...lived. "It was clear right from that first meeting that she will be more than just a face. We expect to have a long-term relationship with her," says Roujol. Werbowy aced her first road test, a series of public appearances in Russia. "In Moscow she talked about her Polish past, about the fact that her family left and moved to Canada," says Roujol. "It could have been very awkward, but she was very natural and very sincere...
With the Iron Curtain long since vanished and Pope John Paul II resting in peace in the crypt below St. Peter's, why should we care whether the Soviet Union was the hand behind the 1981 attempted assassination of the Polish Pontiff? The news Thursday that an Italian parliamentary commission concluded "beyond any reasonable doubt" that the Soviets orchestrated the shooting may not forever settle this slice of intrigue. But 11 months to the day since John Paul's death, the unexpected update on this historical chapter serves as a reminder both of the papacy's unique power - and, especially...
...wunderkind’s letters, the Mozart Society Orchestra (MSO) put on a clumsy, exuberant, and thoroughly enjoyable concert celebrating their namesake’s 250th birthday on Saturday Feb. 24 in Lowell Lecture Hall. Under the creative guidance of Music Director Akiko Fujimoto, the orchestra lacks technical polish across all sections, and has trouble achieving the mountain air clarity that Mozart demands. As the program was stuffed with familiar classics, the technical limitations of the orchestra were on full display. The first movement of the 38th Symphony was the low point. It is complex and intellectually demanding music which...