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...tasteful interior, created by Yale-educated Taiwan architect and proprietor Leslie Chen, is an eye-pleasing mix of sharp lines and warm velvet. Chen herself is a fixture most afternoons and evenings: you'll find her perched on the same barstool and invariably tapping away at a laptop, perhaps creating a new menu, or organizing another poetry jam, cheap Belgian-beer night, free movie screening in the basement cinema or appearances by guest speakers in the fields of design, interiors, graphics and publishing...
...PALACE ON WHEELS This eight-day round-trip adventure begins in Delhi, taking you to the Rajasthani palaces of Jaipur and Udaipur, the fortresses at Jaisalmer and Jodhpur and the Taj Mahal in Agra. The 14 coaches of the train?each of them lavishly decorated with silk and velvet fittings?are named after former Rajput states. It's a train ride, luxury holiday and history lesson all rolled into one?and a bargain at $395 per night...
...plant fear and grit on a winsome face. He makes ?The Window? one of the most modest and satisfying Woolrich adaptations. Driscoll earned a special Oscar for his acting that year, but with puberty his value to Hollywood waned. He later said, ?I was carried on a velvet pillow and dumped into a garbage...
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...Affable and self-effacing, Matsui certainly has the quickest smile east of Yokohama. On this brisk, autumn afternoon in downtown Tokyo, he wears it with a black velvet blazer, a black silk shirt and the gold peace medallion his wife, Mio, gave him in October for his 28th birthday...