Word: stylishness
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...Island/Antilles). Young (24), gifted, black and British, saxman Courtney Pine is his country's most popular jazz performer. His third album, a mix of standards and originals, shows off a controlled lyricism and two different voices: wailing and reedy on soprano, muzzy and funky on tenor. But Pine's stylish man at the piano, Ellis Marsalis, almost steals the album...
...Miramax began to attract attention with its clever marketing of The Thin Blue Line, a stylish documentary about a wrongful murder conviction in Dallas, and for distributing the Swedish epic Pelle the Conqueror. While profits were modest, Pelle went on to win an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, while The Thin Blue Line became a news sensation: it helped persuade a Texas court to throw out the murder conviction...
Although they are going home and not out on the town, the women on this bus are decked out in stylish clothes, the kind of clothes that a manager at a Boston department store might wear. Matching purses and shoes are everywhere. Even the women who are not wearing stockings and heels look "fashionable." One woman combines the low-rent fashion of ripped blue jeans with an immaculate yellow blouse and matching flats...
Safire and his stylish, British-born wife Helene, a jewelry designer, live in an expansive Georgian home in suburban Chevy Chase, Md., purchased in 1969. The rare-book-lined elegance (Safire is an avid collector) is marred only by a series of small white gates to keep the couple's two Bernese mountain dogs, Heidi and James, at bay. No longer at home are their two children: Mark, 25, a computer-software specialist, and Annabel, 24, a painter. Gracious hosts, the Safires are known for their break-the-fast party after Yom Kippur. Amid the memorabilia that fill the house...
Arsenio Hall, at the same moment, has no inkling of the earthquake either. (The news reaches him later, midway through the show, though he doesn't mention it on the air.) With minutes to go before his 5:15 deadline, he is in his dressing room, slipping into a stylish double-breasted jacket, glancing briefly at his cue cards and getting some final dabs of makeup. With only seconds to spare, he bops downstairs, wades through a phalanx of enthusiastic staffers, then darts behind a blue translucent curtain. The band blares, the announcer wails. Hall sinks to one knee...