Word: sumptuously
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...15th century Palazzo Frescobaldi, you can see the lighted campanile of Brunelleschi's late masterwork, the Santo Spirito Church, commissioned by a Frescobaldi in the mid-1400s. The church is almost 150 years younger than the family's 700-year-old business. Now the Frescobaldis, best known for their sumptuous Brunello di Montalcino wine, are coming out of the Middle Ages, forming international alliances that would impress even their arch rivals, the Medicis, and embarking on a marketing strategy for the 21st century...
Tomorrow, as we sit at dinner tables across the nation, break bread with our kin and reap the delectable benefits of this year's sumptuous harvest, we will give thanks for a year that has been so kind to so many. We will thank our mentors for guidance, our teachers for wisdom, our friends for loyalty and our parents for support. We will reflect on all we have to be grateful for, and we will think that by expressing our gratitude we will absolve ourselves of our Thanksgiving duty...
...master; wet mortar was spread on a foundation block; a polished brass plate with the names of the dignitaries and the date was pressed into the mortar and the cornerstone lowered onto the plate. The assembly no doubt cheered and then marched back to the Fountain Inn for a sumptuous dinner, which included 16 toasts honoring just about anything in America the diners could dream up. It has recently been suggested that the participants grew so tiddly from the toasting that they forgot where they put the cornerstone. Though the Charleston newspaper story of 1792 suggested...
...glorious: the persistence of performance-enhancing drug use among athletes. The TIME team in Sydney will include our (conveniently) Australian-born senior editor Belinda Luscombe, correspondent Sally B. Donnelly, staff writer Joel Stein and assistant picture editor Jessica Taraski. Associate art director D.W. Pine will convert their work into sumptuous layouts. The staff of TIME Australia, our South Pacific edition, is already in full Olympic mode. With these Games, Wulf, our sports sage, can add a new chapter to her college thesis, which studied TIME coverage of the Olympics since World War II. She traces her passion for the Olympics...
...Australia was accepted. After three years in Melbourne, she went to Canada in 1996 for two years and then spent a year in Paris. There she fell in love with French style. "Christian Lacroix, Galliano--I have a taste for the elegant," she says, pointing to a rack of sumptuous $200 wedding dresses in the back of her shop. "I want to make Vietnamese look beautiful." But in a city where a college graduate would be happy to land a job paying $100 a month, her $12 shirts and $30 dresses are for only a small number of young people...