Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...threw for the past two years in South Beach (where guests included everyone from Calvin Klein to Rosie O'Donnell), he might decamp to a gay club called the Warsaw Ballroom with a small group of friends to watch male dancers perform. But he was known as a quiet purveyor of the scene, a man who avoided drugs and heavy drinking. "I once proposed that we go out," recalls his friend Janie Samet, a French fashion writer, "and he remarked, 'You can go to a restaurant if you want, but things are always better at home...
...pleasant disposition likes the world with nobody in it," said the famously cantankerous Georgia O'Keeffe. Last week, when a new museum dedicated to her art opened in Santa Fe, N.M., that quiet world she cultivated disappeared in the crush of celebration. The occasion fueled the sort of media blitz--from Le Monde to the Frankfurter Allgemeine to Town & Country--that she experienced again and again in a career that was launched in scandal when she appeared as the tender (and fully exposed) model in the photographs of her lover and later husband Alfred Stieglitz. She advanced that early fame...
Swathed in the beige adobe seen throughout the Southwest, the museum sits on a quiet street off Santa Fe's main plaza, where galleries selling O'Keeffe wannabes vie with Indians hawking turquoise and silver in the long colonnade of the Palace of the Governors. You enter through glass doors trimmed with New Mexican pine. The installation is spare and elegant, as are the 10 galleries with glowing plaster walls, earth-colored concrete floors and skylights that subtly draw viewers from room to room...
Despite the party-like atmosphere before the ceremony and the loud applause upon Robinson's arrival, the crowd's quiet during the dedication showed that it was, as Famine Memorial Committee co-founder John Flaherty said, "a great and solemn occasion...
...Chesterfields, L&M, Lark, Eve), who was the first industry leader to admit to tobacco's ills when he crossed the party line in March, says he had been thinking about going public for years, and that $10 million a year from big brother Philip Morris helped keep him quiet. In 1995, with tobacco companies embroiled in a massive suit with state attorneys general, Philip Morris came knocking on the door of his financially troubled company. The larger firm said it would generously help out with Liggett's legal bills if LeBow would keep his restless conscience out of court...