Word: stylish
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Popcorn and candy bars may have had their day as America's favorite movie snacks. Looking to food concessions for as much as 30% of their revenue, theater owners are introducing more elaborate temptations. Even stylish staples, such as granola bars and premium ice creams, may give way to still more ambitious fare. In the San Francisco area, some theaters now offer beef- or vegetable-filled Russian piroshki and the fruit-filled Jewish pastries, hamantaschen. The ultimate munch may be at the New Varsity theater in Palo Alto, where pizzas, pastas and fancy burgers are dished up in a Spanish...
...DIED. BOBBY SHORT, 80, cabaret performer whose combination of swank elegance and boyish exuberance became a symbol of Manhattan sophistication, drawing glitterati from Woody Allen (who featured Short in two movies) to the Duke and Duchess of Windsor; in New York City. His Great American Songbook repertoire included stylish, raspy celebrations of Cole Porter, George Gershwin, Duke Ellington and Fats Waller. After first playing professionally at the age of 11 as the "Miniature King of Swing," he became a fixture for 36 years at New York's Carlyle Hotel Cafe, where he would have opened its 50th anniversary season...
Looking for an apartment in Shanghai today is a dispiriting reminder of what you should have bought back when everything was cheap. A three-bedroom apartment in The Summit?a stylish, but hardly palatial, development in the popular French Concession?is now on the market for $695,000, about twice what it would have cost two years ago. Another developer has raised its prices in the downtown area by more than 40% since November. Still, many investors feel compelled to buy. "They don't want to miss the boat," says Albert Lau, managing director of Savills Property Services in Shanghai...
Ideal Significant Other: She’s classy, independent, and stylish...
...crisis of confidence, as if its success in the past loomed over its present travails like Mount Fuji. This crisis is centered in the commercial realm, but it is not confined there. Though the streets of Tokyo and other large cities are full of crowds so rich and stylish that you would never guess the nation had ever smelled a recession, Japan is beset by a host of social, political and economic problems: a shaky financial system, chronically low GDP growth, an aging population, hidebound and paralyzed political leaders. Meanwhile, China, the sleeping giant next door, has awakened to spar...