Word: singularability
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...perhaps a singular irony, then, that such a staid and quintessentially Harvard family also has a long tradition of placing its reputation on the line to support some unpopular points of view. And sometimes the maverick stands have put family members at odds with each other...
...evening wear. He reigns as the natural successor to Bill Blass and John Weitz, the first generation of U.S. celebrity designers. Lauren's chief rival, as coincidence would have it, comes from the same Bronx neighborhood. He is Calvin Klein, who has crafted an image of sizzling sexiness as singular as Lauren's aura of rich romance. But Lauren has kept ahead of his onetime neighbor in both popular and negotiable currency: Lauren's total sales are estimated to be one-quarter larger than Klein's. Overall, the U.S. champion money spinner appears to be Designer Liz Claiborne (estimated...
...price of the works and the value of Wyeth's middlebrow eminence? There were no immediate, incontrovertible answers, but the story's hold on the popular imagination proved that Wyeth is still the one artist whose style and personality can tantalize America. Through cunning or coincidence, Wyeth is a singular mixture: old master and master showman...
...intellectuals all over Europe shared a sense of being on the very cusp -- between a smug century and a mad one, between well-behaved traditionalism and liberated modernism -- but nowhere was the sense more highly refined than in hothouse Vienna. Right now, on each side of the Atlantic, that singular, overwrought time and place is evoked in two remarkable museum shows...
...movies have ranged from the eminent to the eminently forgettable, her singular silhouette has budded, bloomed, overripened, then been gloriously pruned. In the past few years, after a much publicized battle with drugs and overweight, Elizabeth Taylor has re-emerged in the public eye to champion humanitarian causes, especially AIDS research. (She became an energetic supporter after the death of her friend Rock Hudson, and late last week appeared at a Senate subcommittee hearing urging her former husband John Warner and other Senators to authorize $80 million in Government funds.) Once shy in public, "the world's most beautiful woman...