NOW entering its fifth year, Scarsdale Avenue Cafe still preserves the sophisticated look of its opening days.
On the off chance that there was anyone out there who had not yet clocked Victoria Beckham's evolution from Spice Girl into sophisticated fashion designer, the opening 10 seconds of her first ever London catwalk show elegantly drove the point home.
The two-diamond opening was a sophisticated version, now favored by some experts, of a traditional strong two-bid.
FOUR FOOD STUDIO -- The strip-mall and fast-food landscape in Melville, N.Y., at the western edge of Suffolk County, has been brightened by the opening of this sophisticated place.
The opening is hesitant, sophisticated and profound, and yet gentle and artless like a lullaby.
Many new cars already have variable valve timing, in which sophisticated engine controls adjust the opening and closing of the intake and/or exhaust values in order to enhance performance and save fuel.
These include an intriguing self-incompatibility system, a sophisticated mechanism for flower bud opening and programmed floral death, and a long history of use by man as a vegetable, ornamental and medicinal plant.
Friday's opening of Hugo Weisgall's sophisticated setting of Pirandello's "Six Characters in Search of an Author" is directed by Albert Takazauckas and is to be conducted by Barbara Day Turner, artistic director of the San Jose Opera.
Plus there's a batch of new jokes, a more sophisticated staging and arrangement for my opening number (thanks to my brilliant collaborators, director Robert La Fosse and onstage accompanist Lance Cruce) and, of course, a new dress!
The design for the church interior is sophisticated, with a curved sanctuary wall, openings admitting light from the outside in patterns, and a view through a glass wall to a rear garden.
But, without a freer media, the sophisticated and civilised country unveiled in the opening ceremony will remain as its title suggests: a dream.
