Word: swanked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Cool" may be nothing more than a mental state. Unfortunately, not all college guys live there...yet. Hopefully, with some careful planning and creative thinking, you can jump-start the birth of your personal cool. Barring that, for you men lacking in swank, here's a guide to help you pack for your move from Nowheresville to Slick City...
...between the peso and the U.S. dollar, which in turn encouraged Soros to increase his investment; it totals around $250 million. Flush with cash, IRSA has been on a buying spree, investing in everything from a $50 million sports complex to major office buildings to $450 million worth of swank shopping malls. In the posh ski resort of San Carlos de Bariloche in the Andes, IRSA joined with Citicorp to buy the deluxe Hotel Llao Llao, with its spectacular view of Argentina's lake country...
BOSTON--Like many of the city's swank food emporiums, Savenor's Meat Market is well-stocked with organic aragula, shiitake mushrooms and the finest range-fed quail...
...even stores whose main business isn't bookselling are aping the superstores' bibliophilic ambiance. In Manhattan's landmark Scribner's bookstore, fabled haunt of Hemingway and Fitzgerald, a Benetton branch has set up shop and begun playing host to something called the Salon, a reading series featuring such swank young writers as Daphne Merkin, whose books will be on sale amid the turtlenecks...
...then arbitrariness is the show's only distinguishing element. In the first episode, dwarfs appear as waiters at a swank hotel for no explicable reason. In some ways, Gun resembles a camp version of Altman's Short Cuts. Like that film, it offers vignettes of the striving and the desperate. With Gun, though, viewers are left with characters like Lilly (Rosanna Arquette), a lonely housewife prone to doing suggestive aerobics alone in her living room and whining as though she's ingested too much Slim-Fast. Chuck Norris would at least know enough to ease the pain with a chili...