Elements of Style according to George Orwell

Orwell suggests six rules in his essay Politics and the English Language:

1. Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.
2. Never use a long word where a short one will do.
3. If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out.
4. Never use the passive where you can use the active.
5. Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.
6. Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.

What about beauty in writing? You've heard about subtlety in languages like French where certain thoughts are expressed in a word that isn't possible to translate to English. News reporting and research benefits from economy of words. Do you agree that beautiful prose is sometimes in order?