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...Harvard she also married Anthony Willett, co-author of Shadow over Shangri-La, her recently published memoir, whom she had first met in Nepal while he was doing fieldwork as a specialist in international rural development. A graduate of Cambridge University, at her encouragement Willett enrolled in Harvard's M.P.A. program while she was attending the Kennedy School. In 1988-89, they lived together as resident tutors in Currier House...
There are rumbles too from the author's former Shangri-La. A rancid attack by Atlanta-based free-lancer Ed Hinton in January's GQ charged that Grisham is sullying the sacred ground where Faulkner once trod: "In a long line of Mississippi writers, Grisham is a singular aberration and paradox, the worst and the richest, the least distinguished and the most popular." The article outraged most locals, who point out that Grisham helped pay to repair the Faulkner estate and rescued a new literary periodical, the Oxford American. Says novelist Barry Hannah, who has a formidable reputation...
...next month at the Riviera. "This is the first truly interactive show!" he exclaims. "The audience will have a laser battle with the performers. We've waterized the whole theater-turned it into a giant submarine to take the audience on a tour of wonderful places like Atlantis and Shangri-La." You might think it difficult to get a submarine up the Himalayas--but in Vegas, nothing is impossible...
...surely the most unusual aspect of this musical Shangri-La is the fact that it is set on private property. It was built in 1934 at the will of Sir John Christie, the scion of a rich, ancient family, who saw it as a showcase for the talents of his new wife, lyric soprano Audrey Mildmay. The current proprietor, John's son George, makes his home right next to what could be called the family store...
...come up with such zingers. Over a century ago, Rudyard Kipling called San Francisco a "mad city" full of "perfectly insane people." Frank Lloyd Wright once hypothesized that all the loose nuts in America end up in Los Angeles because of the continental tilt. California is La-La Land, Shangri-La La, a place that twice elected a guy nicknamed "Moonbeam" governor. Yes, getting a good dig in at California is a bonafide American tradition...