Word: aficionado
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...firm began life in 1904, when Charles Rolls, an aristocratic automobile aficionado and dealership owner, joined forces with fledgling carmaker Henry Royce. Then and now, the company's cars were big, powerful, stately and silent. In 1931, Rolls bought out more sporty rival Bentley, and for decades the cars were stablemates, eventually becoming fairly indistinguishable from one another, though Bentleys were always slightly less expensive...
...have to have a certain amount of affluence to afford the kinds of things we have to offer," says the Texas-born Katz, who began her career as a buyer at Foley's in Houston and whose second favorite store, she admits, is Target. "I've been a longtime aficionado. I was an early adopter. That's part of who I am too." Sure enough, Katz comes off as the nicest whiz at business school or the smartest, chicest mom at the bake sale. She is chatty about the trials of balancing career and motherhood ("Sometimes the balls are going...
...minute chukkers and the women playing two. The women and men took turns on the field and shared responsibility for the victory over Myopia. The Harvard Polo Club was fresh from a retreat in San Saba, Texas, where they spent a week training on the ranch of the polo aficionado and actor Tommy Lee Jones ’69. The club plans to compete against Yale, Cornell, Skidmore College, the University of Connecticut, and possibly some other teams in the upcoming school year. —Staff writer Joshua J. Kearney can be reached at kearney@fas.harvard.edu...
...according to portaltaurino.com, a bullfighting website. And in 2004, Shanghai hosted the first bullfight ever in the country. "I have a letter from a Chinese business group saying that they want to keep organizing bullfights," says Carlos Ruiz Villasuso, editor-in-chief of mundotoro.com, a popular website for bullfighting aficionados. Asked about the growing debate in Spain, Ruiz Villasuso says that "bullfights are like the Church; they will be here for ever. The law says bullfights are a right of the Spanish aficionado...
...each director takes towards their self-reflexivity. Rodriguez’s film is funnier, cheekier, more willing to recklessly embrace its own cheesiness. You don’t have to be a zombie savant to appreciate his joke. But Tarantino’s flick all but demands a genre aficionado to fully appreciate the references. “Grindhouse” is a testament to nostalgic perversion, a kind of tribute to rebellious baby-boomer arrested development. It nails every ridiculous convention and casual consequence of low budget production, from missing reels to badly scratched prints. But more than just...