Then there's Mandel's own card, which captures him in an elegant follow-through, looking a bit like Sidd Finch.
Upstairs at Courage & Joy, Joe-Hynn Yang has mounted "Serene Glazes, Elegant Forms" (through March 24).
Mingling philosophy, poetry, criticism and description, the book is an elegant pilgrimage through Spanish art and history.
One last this-is-not-a-motorcycle complaint: even a top-heavy land yacht like the Honda Gold Wing allows for carving elegant lines through a corner.
He did an elegant job through his choices -- "Green Chimneys" again, "Instrospection" again and a deep blues version of "Friday the 13th" played on an old National metal guitar.
The two of them drift, in a state of elegant melancholy, through various picturesque places, including Paris, London and Fez, where they finally meet, drawn together by a mysterious memory disorder.
A gifted journalist's elegant excursion through and around Chekhov, finding "wild and strange" objects in his stories where others have often sighted only delicacy, modesty and candid, well-behaved shades of gray.
For the Monk tunes Evidence and Bye-Ya, she imparts the rhythmic shapes to a series of riffs but hides the melodies, and What Is This Thing Called Love threads elegant improv through punchy chordwork.
In fact, every time I read the remark again I find myself laughing – not at Geri et al, which says something about how Mandela elevates even the cynical, but with him, who somehow contrived to tread the most elegant path through the unique absurdities of much of his later existence.
Instead of reforming a generally miserable business climate, Villaraigosa has fixated on fostering "elegant density" through massive new residential construction.
