Word: stylishness
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...original theme park Walt Disney built in Anaheim, Calif., which opened 50 years ago this week. But Walt's vision of idyllic small-town America now has a surprisingly un-Midwestern twist. Inside one Victorian building is Main Street's first Chinese restaurant, the Plaza Inn, crafted as a stylish tea shop from early 20th century Shanghai. The interior has traditional landscapes of the Chinese countryside painted on the walls. The murals have been based on the Disney animated movie Mulan, which was inspired by a Chinese legend. Soon the workers in white hard hats, who are still screwing...
...wine-country stop that beguiles many people is the relaxed, pleasantly bucolic New Boonville Restaurant, about 2½ hours northwest of San Francisco. The restaurant appeals both to stylish celebrities like Angela Lansbury and casually dressed locals. Charlene and Vernon Rollins, the husband and wife who run this restaurant, grow most of their own produce in a sprawling garden on their grounds. It is now a shimmer of color with orange peppers, green to red tomatoes, emerald zucchini and rose-gold peaches. The Rollinses raise much of their own poultry and serve most meats and fish simply grilled. Their delectable goat...
...Valley of Horses), the queen of the ice age finds it hard to be both beautiful and brilliant. After a hard day as animal trainer, physician, fire maker and slingshot instructor, Ayla must decide whom to choose for "a turn in the furs." Should it be dependable Jondalar or stylish Ranec, the romantic, dark-skinned artist who actually asks, "Would you like to see some of my carvings...
Each story is told with gentle self-mockery, teaching the inexhaustible lesson that appearances are deceiving. The actors understand that the essence of being stylish is ease and zest, not straining for artificial mannerisms. Pownall (also author of Master Class) merges the wry, knowing voice of the novel's narrator with the character of Mr. Bennett, whom Austen describes as "a mixture of quick parts, sarcastic humor, reserve and caprice." That fusion provides a moral center, and Kiley gives perhaps his finest performance since Man of La Mancha as a father who really does know best. --W.A.H...
...setting a tone of can-do urgency. Shortly after assuming office, Gorbachev declared a crack-down on alcoholism. As if to underscore the contrast with his aged and often invisible predecessors, he traveled widely, exchanging his fedora for a hard hat to inspect factories and showing off his stylish First Lady Raisa abroad. Gorbachev also moved quickly to consolidate his personal power. His principal rival for the top job, Grigori Romanov, suffered the indignity of sudden retirement. After 28 years as Foreign Minister, Gromyko was kicked upstairs, to the largely ceremonial position of President. And last week Viktor Grishin...