Word: fittingness
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It is fitting, somehow, that Chanel was often photographed holding a cigarette or standing in front of her famous Art Deco wall of mirrors. Fashion tends to involve a good dose of smoke and mirrors, so it should come as no surprise that Gabrielle Chanel's version of her life...
Certainly her life was unpredictable. Even her death--in 1971, at the age of 87 in her private quarters at the Ritz Hotel--was a plush ending that probably would not have been predicted for Chanel by the nuns in the Aubazine orphanage, where she spent time as a ward...
Frank Lloyd Wright was an American original. Prolific, visionary, unorthodox and ingenious, he built for a romantic America, a country with space and grace to spare. While the turbines of Modernism were fitting and turning homes, buildings and cities into parts of a huge functional machine, Wright held on to...
Her trip to the development was both a fitting end to her presidency and start to her new job. Ever since Robinson first entered politics as a Irish senator almost 30 years ago, her career has been motivated by compassion for the disadvantaged and a strong commitment to human rights...
As the University prepares to send off its new graduates with all the fitting pomp and circumstance, the community nonetheless recalls a year spotted with tragedy.