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Hardy slips a stunning silver-and-diamond pavé cuff off his wife's wrist and holds it up to the light. It looks as if some silver-fingered Midas brushed against a bamboo trellis covered in climbing flowers. ?In 200 years,? he says, ?you will see this on the block at Sotheby's.? He is not speaking of the design but of the exquisite craftsmanship. One of the great luxuries of working in Bali is the ability to draw from a tradition of jewelry making that goes back thousands of years?and the ability to lure...
...masculinity frames an urgent sensitivity; he gives off the air of being willing to punch someone but only to mask his own pain. He's the kind of guy who has his mom's, sister's and two half sisters' first initials tattooed in Gothic letters on his wrist. ("It spells KAOS, but upside down it looks like Sony," he notes wryly.) But will young girls warm to his vulnerability when it's drawn out by another guy? "I don't think Ennis could be labeled as gay," says Ledger. "Without Jack Twist, I don't know that he ever...
...consists of a few colored stripes, weaving around his wrist, and the following words: “The Sounds of Silence...
...Daniel Day-Lewis) and a worldly woman (Michelle Pfeiffer). But the true subject is reticence, its charms and perils -- the mannerly, orderly life that most of us try to live. Tiptoeing through the plush parlors of old Manhattan, the film finds ecstasy in the kissing of a lady's wrist, and heartbreak in a sigh. This, then, is Scorsese at his most daring: he has composed a tragic opera, sung in whispers...
Still, the performing readers carried out their dramatic purpose, wearing subdued black outfits and starkly contrasting red wrist ribbons to symbolize HarvAid’s purpose. In fact, the Concert’s finale featured the sizable Harvard Kuumba choir dressed identically in these outfits, singing thrillingly and fittingly, “Power of Love...