Word: timelessness
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...What will the West think?" That timeless refrain, heard so often throughout Russian history, was voiced by a puzzled Soviet official last week as he pondered the remarkable political comeback of Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko. The official's words were tinged with irony and embarrassment over what he considered to be the advanced age and limited qualifications of the man who had been selected by the Communist Party Central Committee to succeed Yuri Andropov. But they also betrayed a deep sense of uncertainty, even misgiving, that was felt around the globe as one of the superpowers went about its secret rite...
True, the carefully manicured haircut has gone from black to white, and the jaunty gait has lost some of its bounce, but the chiseled good looks and the smooth-as-silk charm are as timeless as a well-tailored tuxedo. His last movie, Walk, Don't Run, was released in 1966, but Cary Grant, who turned 80 last week, has never lost his Hollywood gloss-or his penchant for privacy. In an effort to keep his birthday "as low key as possible," the actor, born in England as Archie Leach, celebrated by staying home with his wife Barbara...
...writer that he became finally and truly lost. In almost all of his 17 novels he exhibited a fatal temptation to play the philosopher, to make a large statement. He described his 1950 drama Burning Bright, which closed on Broadway after only 13 performances, as "a morality play, completely timeless and placeless." He translated and retold Arthurian legend and once proposed collaborating with Director Elia Kazan in staging modern versions of Greek tragedy...
...sacrifices that they had made. It is treason to forgive, inexcusable to forget. So, between Armenians and Turks, Northern Irish Catholics and Protestants, between South Moluccans and Dutch, between Lebanese Maronites and Druze, between Hatfields and McCoys, between Montagues and Capulets, the ancient fury persists. The enemy is timeless. His very existence is unforgivable, but also indispensable...
While the secret of Saint Laurent's longevity is in his daytime clothes, his brilliance shows in his extravagant evening fantasies. There are, to be sure, examples of pure, timeless classicism and of ethereal visions fashioned out of yards of Chantilly lace. More often he sheds convention like an overcoat in springtime. There are reckless forays into nudity, called see-through in the catalogue; avalanches of silk that swell the exemplary trapeze into a balloon; decadent wraith-wear for psychedelic occasions. Is this foolery (all done before the designer turned 40) vulgar, silly, nutty? Yes, probably all three...