Word: precisionism
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The enduring appeal of Johannes Vermeer - a new exhibition of his paintings has just proved a runaway success at the Metropolitan Museum in New York and transfers to London's National Gallery this summer - is based on an enigma. The master of precision, mood and detail, Vermeer nevertheless avoided all...
On one level, the play is a wee thing. The first act spends most of its time making spirited fun of the culture clash between the Hollywood phonies and the Irish yokels. In Act II the piece deepens, as a drug-troubled youth who has been rejected from the movie...
And the music was indeed heavenly. Particularly striking were Michael Schade as Tamino and Hei-Kyung Hong as Pamina. Both possess remarkably clear and lyrical voices whose timbres match seamlessly. Their seemingly identical musical conceptions created the well-blended texture and flexible phrasing that are so crucial for the underlying...
When she performs, Coco is all business. At a banquet room recently in Hong Kong's Grand Hyatt hotel, CoCo is doing a soundcheck before a Chanel pret-a-porter show. Earphones on, she belts out A Love Before Time. She is into it, but the others in the room...
There's no point in denying it any longer: jeans are a wardrobe staple. No matter what age, no matter what nationality, no matter where one may fall on the style barometer, odds are there's a pair of jeans lurking in most everyone's closet. But for the trendy...