Word: splendid
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...says we have to wear traditional dress until 8 o'clock." As we drove to the capital Thimphu, it became clearer from his conversation?the latest Hollywood releases, Prince Charles, Britney?that a quarter century after opening its borders to the outside world, Bhutan is losing some of its splendid isolation. But while satellite TV may be superseding story-telling, and Internet chat rooms replacing the hubbub of the marketplace, this Himalayan kingdom perched between Tibet and India still has no traffic lights, no Starbucks and only 7,000 tourists a year. Those on a quest for the unspoiled will...
Affectlessness is not a quality much prized in movie protagonists, but Billy Bob Thornton, that splendid actor, does it perfectly as Ed Crane, a taciturn small-town barber, circa 1949. Everyone cheats on him--his wife, his business partner, his teen lover, his hotshot lawyer. By the movie's end, he is facing his final comeuppance, deadpan sangfroid still miraculously intact. The ever astonishing Coen brothers say their film was inspired by the spirit of James M. Cain's novels about ill-fated dopes. But the Coens transcend Cain. If this were not such great American-vernacular moviemaking--hilarious...
...salad. Or head back on Lane 9 toward Yang's Kitchen for traditional Shanghai dishes like braised meatballs and drunken chicken. End your day with a drink at M on the Bund, a sumptuous bar and Mediterranean eatery on the Huangpu River. From the seventh-floor balcony overlooking the splendid stretch of Old World colonial trading houses, you can look across at the gleaming, futuristic towers of the Pudong financial district. The view doesn't get any better...
...Finally, while this change is a great first step to making the guide more user-friendly, another splendid way to improve the CUE guide immediately comes to mind: indexing the courses on the basis of “Workload” and “Difficulty...
...MONICA, ALL THE TIME: Who can forget those splendid days in 1998, when L?Affaire Lewinsky first broke? Not Marvin Kalb, the director of the Washington office of Harvard?s Shorestein Center on Press, Politics and Public Policy. Kalb is still scolding about Zippergate coverage in "One Scandalous Story: Clinton, Lewinsky, and Thirteen Days That Tarnished American Journalism" (Free Press; October). According to PW, "The problem, Kalb finds, is that the corporate concentration of ownership of news pushes the bottom line above all else. And with the proliferation of news outlets, especially in cable TV, reporters must titillate rather than...