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ELLE'S ULTIMATE WEDDINGS Style: Chic and sleek, hardly any veils Wildest look: A Vera Wang minidress, the sleeves longer than the skirt Suggested wedding gift: A $10,000 badger blanket Genre-busting advance: The bride models don't smile Unique advice: Bridesmaids' dresses don't have to match...
...Kirkus applauds "The Emperor of Ocean Park," the much-buzzed-about first novel of Yale law professor Stephen L. Carter (Knopf), giving it a rhapsodic starred review. "This sleek, immensely readable first novel by Yale law professor Carter, author of such provocative nonfiction as 'The Culture of Disbelief' and 'God's Name in Vain,' is custom-designed for the kind of commercial success enjoyed by John Grisham's 'The Firm' 11 years ago...a melodrama with brains and heart to match its killer plot." First printing...
...stores next month, is the first camera I've tested that fills the bill. Indeed, it's the first Nikon camera to be engineered around the design, rather than the other way around. It's about the size and weight of a smooth-edged deck of cards, and its sleek blue-and-brushed-metal look really sets it apart from the pack. Call it the iPod of digital cameras, a comparison it deserves, not just for form and looks but also for its admirable ease...
...very long ago, we liked everything to be smooth and sleek and glossy. We liked glass coffee tables in our living rooms and black lacquered tiles in our bathrooms. Then suddenly everything changed. Fabrics became worn and soft. Leather became old and brown and distressed. Smooth was out, texture was in. What happened? It all started with two gay men and an English bulldog in a tiny town in North Carolina...
Over the past decade Strasbourg has been transformed from a provincial French city into a model of urban living. Cars have been virtually banished from the center, traffic circles have been converted into pedestrian squares and road space has been given over to sleek trams. The new Musée d'Art Moderne is typical of this regeneration. The dramatic building, which is dominated by a wall of glass facing the river, is matched by an equally impressive collection of paintings inside: Picassos, Dalís and Kandinskys, plus remarkable collections by local artists Tomi Ungerer and Hans (Jean...