If the work is ground-breaking, the exhibition was also record-breaking: staged with all the spectacle of a McQueen catwalk show, Savage Beauty garnered international plaudits and attracted over 661,000 visitors - 80,000 in its last week, when the museum stayed open until midnight to sate attendance demand.
You say, 'I'm here to win, and it's the only reason I'm here.' " In fact, McEnroe predicted that Murray (who loves hardcourts) or Roddick (so brilliant at Wimbledon in nearly toppling Federer) would win the Open, and that Federer was sated by his recent titles and the birth of twin daughters.
The smartly attired crowd, sated by a full open bar and trays of delicate hors d'oeuvres, appeared happy and festive — save for a scowling restaurant hostess who informed us that the event was private and not open to the press.
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The Stones dished out enough of all that, the Sunday they opened their six-night stand at Madison Square Garden, to sate the most wild-eyed Futurist.
So the Cove, a restaurant that has proudly mounted a collection of outboard motors on its walls, opened earlier in the season than usual to sate the collective craving for a plate of fresh fried perch.
There are more than 200,000 foreign domestic workers on the island, and if the trial goes well it could open the way for a new source of labour to sate the affluent city-state's appetite for household help.
Beef sate was another surprise.
But not an easy desire to sate.
Now that Manhattan is getting its first Trader Joe's -- opening March 17 at 142 East 14th Street on Union Square -- some New Yorkers will have to do less roadwork to sate their passions for its products.
