Word: splendor
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...father had been an operator at India's National Thermal Power Corp., a job that paid well and enabled him to give all his four daughters a good education. Pravin wanted to keep Smita the way her father had. His motorbike, a black-and-gold 97-cc Hero Honda Splendor Plus, cost him just over $1,000, a fortune considering he made just a few hundred dollars a year. "I told him it was not affordable, not needed," says his father Vijay. "He said he needed it to get to the fields. The young these days-they want more luxuries...
...PARIS: Conducted amid the Louis XVI?style splendor of the Four Seasons Hotel George V, tel: (33-1) 49 52 70 00, the Forget Jet Lag treatment ($400) is a soothing trifecta of therapies: an intensive rehydration of the sensitive under-eye area, an energetic fresh-mint-and-salt scrub of the legs to jump-start your sluggish circulation, and your choice of an aromatherapy or Shiatsu massage for a rejuvenating finish. Afterward, you can further reinvigorate yourself with a glass of fresh Alpine water...
Meanwhile Hosseini was growing up in Californian splendor. He learned English, went to high school and college, became a doctor. Audiences at Hosseini's readings are sometimes surprised at how American he looks. He's clean-shaven and handsome--at 42 he bears a passing resemblance to Antonio Banderas. He speaks English with only a slight accent; he has the kind of calm, even voice that must come in handy for delivering bad news to patients. Lounging in the kitchen of the large, neat house he shares with his wife and two children, he wears a cable-knit sweater...
...stage and the middle-aged audience, staring at the women and sharing their discomfort. In the second act, the animosities festering in the two main couples explodes into rancorous fantasy in the faux-Ziegfeld "Loveland" section, and Bennett gave Sondheim's comic-poignant torch songs and novelty numbers a splendor that both mocked and deepened the characters' self-pity or numbness...
...million tourists who visit New York City's Rockefeller Center Christmas tree each year see a piece of arboreal splendor. What they do not see is the arduous, meticulous process of getting it there, a job largely left to New Jersey landscaper Marc Torsilieri. For 25 years Torsilieri and his team felled the Norway spruce--usually 80 ft.--plus--and prepared it for moving by hinging lower limbs and scurrying to its upper extremities to tie up delicate branches. After hauling the evergreen in a giant tractor-trailer, with a police escort, he helped decorate it with 30,000 lights...