Word: fontainebleau
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...showcase Samant's range of Indian wines in a space that oozes class and cash--with bottles costing twice the average Indian weekly wage, it's meant to be exclusive. Tonight the guests include local investment bankers, venture capitalists and a group of students from the business school in Fontainebleau, France, on a two-week trip to India to see what all the buzz is about. Over Chenin Blanc and Reserve Shiraz, the patrons swap investment tips and gossip about recent sightings of Richard Gere and Will Smith. "You're so lucky to be here now," says Samant, 39. "This...
...chicken wings grew cold. I jangled my keys. It was too late, I told the men. I stepped off the porch and found my Jetta, safe in the strip mall’s parking lot, and sped at 60 miles per hour back to my high-ceilinged room off Fontainebleau Drive. It was quiet...
...rhetoric of Saint-Gaudens' monument to Deacon Samuel Chapin in Springfield, Mass. His only nude female figure, the gilded sheet-copper Diana that he made as a weathervane figure for the top of Stanford White's original Madison Square Garden in 1891, slender as any mannerist charmer from Fontainebleau, became in a literal way the Golden Girl of the '90s in New York, as definitive a pinup as the Gibson Girl...
...favorite of Napoleon and Henry VIII, real tennis is the predecessor of lawn tennis, and has its origins in games enjoyed in castles and monasteries in centuries past. It is played today by about 10,000 aficionados on some 40 courts worldwide-some of which, like those at Fontainebleau castle near Paris, are exquisite historical monuments-and enthusiasts say the game is on the up. "Real tennis is in a much healthier state than it was 15-20 years ago," says professional player Peter Paterson of the Cambridge University Real Tennis Club. As proof, he points to the recently built...
...billion annual income of the U.S. travel industry is bigger than the entire federal defense budget. And it has been brought to its knees, reduced to begging for government handouts and wooing potential tourists with outrageously attractive deals. At the grand Fontainebleau Hilton in Miami Beach you can get a $450 room for only $200 a night. Universal Studios will let regional customers into its Orlando theme park for two days and throw in a room for two nights--for $99. Budget is offering daily rentals for as little...