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...guests mill under a marquee that's the size of a cricket field and help themselves to a 42-dish buffet. The sides of the tent are crimson chiffon, the ceiling is black satin inset with sequin stars, and the drapes and the throw cushions are gold and amber silk. The place is heated by 20 gas burners and illuminated by 25 chandeliers, 40 lanterns, 66 spotlights and 288 candles. Tradition dictates that separate celebrations be held for the groom, the bride, their engagement and their families and friends. So Chopra, a prominent New Delhi physician, plans to throw five...
...Jacuzzis, a sauna and a hammam as well as the hotel's Transvital Swiss Beauty Center, which offers treatments like chocolate-therapy massage and herbal wraps, and an Isokinetic Sport Reconditioning Center, equipped to accommodate injured or training athletes. The guest rooms' decor of oak flooring, pine wainscoting and silk plaid curtains doesn't challenge, but that's the point: visitors are here to unwind...
...meet a correspondent from a major television network or a writer from a leading newspaper is when a storm has just destroyed their neighborhood. And when the big shots do vist the outland, they always dress wrong, covered in either condescending denim or some haughty blend of wool and silk. Then they call the tornado that struck the place a "cyclone," even though the place is Minnesota and Minnesotans don't use that word...
...Jacuzzis, a sauna and a hammam as well as the hotel's Transvital Swiss Beauty Center, which offers treatments like chocolate-therapy massage and herbal wraps, and an Isokinetic Sport Reconditioning Center, equipped to accommodate injured or training athletes. The guest rooms' decor of oak flooring, pine wainscoting and silk plaid curtains doesn't challenge, but that's the point: visitors are here to unwind. Three of the hotel's four restaurants overlook the jagged mountain range, but we sat in the Stube - a cozy, wood-paneled Tyrolean room in which Chef Luigi Sarsano serves up local cuisine. His menu...
...artist of “Constellation 1, 2, and 3,” the pieces at the entrance, was thrilled to work with the variety of media her class allowed. For “Visual and Environmental Studies 123r, Post Brush,” Stinetorf silk-screened diagrams, drawings, and NASA images of constellations onto canvas, then moved to collage, adding layers of paper, cloth cut-outs, and plastic flowers to convey a depth she finds lacking in ordinary silk-screening...