Her first book, Entertaining (1982; with Elizabeth Hawes), set the tone for subsequent publications: superb art direction, gorgeous settings, labour-intensive recipes and decorating projects.
And while each property showcases its own style, all 10 hotels feature three key traits that set them apart: superb customer service, extravagant amenities and serene settings, ranging from cliffside beach oases to tropical island sanctuaries.
The art — in particular, a spectacular triptych by Ed Ruscha, commissioned for the lobby — looks superb in the variety of settings that Herzog and de Meuron have crafted for it.
Even at medium speed settings, the quality is superb.
Technically it really is superb, with breathtaking landscape tableaux and settings, seamlessly meshing cyber-geography with the New Zealand locations.
And yet, performed by singers who are knowing enough to know the effect at which the quixotic rhythms were aiming, Pound's settings can be somehow superb.
The cockpit is loaded with high-end gear, much of it borrowed from the Navigator: a 140-watt Alpine stereo with in-dash CD changer and seven speakers, an optional voice-activated navigation system with superb graphics and ease of use, memory settings that recall each driver's favored settings for the seat, the mirrors and even the adjustable pedals.
(For a fine home-town alternative, head to St. Joseph's Church, in Greenwich Village, on Dec. 30, where the superb musicians of TENET will perform Psalm settings and motets by their favorite composer, Monteverdi).
THE NEWBERRY CONSORT: "SHAKESPEARE'S SONGBOOK" Music Before 1800 presents the superb ensemble (featuring the soprano Ellen Hargis and the lutenist Paul O'Dette), which will offer settings of the Bard's words by such composers as Morley, Dowland, and Cornish.
(Eichler) * VOICES OF ASCENSION (Wednesday) This superb church choir, led by Dennis Keene, goes ecumenical in a program devoted to Hebrew sacred settings, namely Bernstein's "Chichester Psalms" and Ernest Bloch's "Avodath Hakodesh," a setting of the Sabbath morning service.
