Word: vertue
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...most obsessively used accessory in your bag - so why shouldn't your mobile phone also be the most beautiful? That's the idea behind Vertu phones, which began selling last week - for €6,000 and up - at Selfridges department store in London and recently opened boutiques in Paris and Beverly Hills. Handcrafted from precious materials, Vertu hopes the devices will appeal to those who live luxe: Gwyneth Paltrow has already got hers. But though the company says Tom Ford has ordered one, his p.r. says he hasn't. In many ways Vertu is an old phone in a shiny...
...which vertu engendered is the fear...
...Folle Twistante because of her appearance in a movie with guitar-swacking Johnny Hallyday. But then Svengali Roger Vadim snared her, paled her complexion, and hollowed out her cheeks for his modern-dress version of the Marquis de Sade's Justine, which he called Le Vice et La Vertu. She played Vertu. Catherine presented Vadim with a son, Christian, before he left her for a new Trilby, U.S. Actress Jane Fonda. Catherine holds no grudge against Vadim ("I have my Christian, my Vadim in miniature") and clings to the image he created...
...KNYGHT was ther, and he was war and wys Who hadde him worde from nygh apothecaries That thogh the clerkes worthy al did sem Hir lechoury hadde longe in proces been. The knyght then in a loude tonge rendred That al by lak of vertu was engendred, And he could mak swyft remedie with powre By shortenyng hir synnyng tyme an houre...
With pride they pointed to Mme.' Gomo, who for the past 60 years has eased into the world an average of two babies a week, in all 6,582. Thirty-six years ago, they added, Mme. Gomo was awarded the Prix de Vertu of the French Academy. She is nearing 80 years of age and is soon to retire, they concluded with an air of "what is to happen to our future babies...