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Love Mad Men? The Charles Hotel’s bar, Noir, dedicates the once-holy day to 1960s debauchery à la Mad Men. Find cigarette smoke, (corset) boning and cocktails at a bar described as one of the sultriest on either side of the river (Stuff@Night).Sundays, 10 p.m. Noir, Charles Hotel, One Bennett Street, Cambridge...
Imagine the pressure to pick good make-out music when you're a rock legend wooing jazz's sultriest vocalist. Yes, it must be hard to be ELVIS COSTELLO, now squiring DIANA KRALL--to the Grammys, to Costello's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction, to a London fund raiser at which the pair performed a duet (Elton John's Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word). Costello, 47, and Krall, 38, met presenting an award at last year's Grammys. "It's a wonderful thing, and it's special to me. I'm really happy," Krall told...
...longer true. While the globe has warmed just 1[degree]F on average over the past 100 years, a little temperature rise goes a long way, and the trend is accelerating. The three hottest years in the past century have come in the past decade, and 1995 was the sultriest on record. Spring arrives a week earlier in the northern hemisphere than it did a decade ago. Mountain glaciers are melting all over the world, and the permanent sea ice surrounding Antarctica has receded dramatically. Unusually severe weather has been more frequent in the past few years, quite plausibly...
...these days? Her year-old first album, called Madonna, is now double platinum (meaning more than 2 million sales). Her second, Like a Virgin, came out three months ago and is triple platinum. Born Madonna Louise Ciccone in Bay City, Mich., the former Alvin Ailey dancer is among the sultriest of the video vamps, and now she is going for the big screen. She has a small role in the just-released Vision Quest and stars as the fast-living title character of Desperately Seeking Susan, expected out next month. "I shared a lot with Susan," says Madonna...
...book which added "It" to the vocabulary of the '20s enthralled readers on two continents and enthroned Elinor Glyn as the sultriest literary siren of the pre-Kinsey age. Even more famous, of course, was Three Weeks, a swoonmaking elixir that Elinor uncorked in 1907. Three Weeks, written in six, eventually sold some 5,000,000 copies, and featured a wildly romantic Balkan queen who greeted her lover from a reclining position on a tiger skin with a red rose between her teeth. The book was boycotted in Boston, blasted from pulpits, and celebrated in an anonymous ditty...