Word: gilt
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...restoration is sensitive and, for the most part, scrupulous. Always there are quibbles: Why have the hoteliers covered the tile walls of a main hallway with cheesy green felt? In the 65-ft.-high barrel-vaulted Grand Hall, however, the strict preservationists were indulged. The gilt is real gold leaf. Artisans worked 3,000 hours fixing up the large pictorial stained-glass window. The marble for the floors is from the same French quarry used by the station's builders. Indeed, to the modern eye, accustomed to cleaner colors and lines, the period hues and ornamental density of this main...
Dressed in a dark blue suit and blue-striped tie, Gorbachev stood at the head of a receiving line in the white-and-gilt Hall of St. George. Premier Nikolai Tikhonov, Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and First Vice President Vasili Kuznetsov were by his side as he greeted the foreign dignitaries. Gorbachev looked his guests in the eye, occasionally giving a visitor a two-handed grip or flashing a reserved smile of recognition...
...only 1,300 seats) give it a light, cozy ambience. Trompe l'oeil reigns: columns that appear to be marble turn out to be made of skillfully disguised plaster. Scenes from plays like Goethe's Faust and Lessing's Nathan der Weise adorn the doorways; in the auditorium, the gilt chandelier is topped with the crest of the old Saxon monarchy. It illuminates a mid-19th century musical pantheon that includes Mozart, Beethoven, Gluck, Mendelssohn, Meyerbeer and Spontini...
...this discussion like the public debate about the ART's production production--ignoressociety's interest in protecting Endgame original form. More and more, we recognize a social value in preserving cultural objects in their original form. With physical objects preservation is easy. Even Soviet leaders to gilt the onion domes of their czarist predecessors without too much in the way of ideological acrobatics. With performing arts preservation of the original script in a value may preserve it, at least in a way many Greek tragedies were not, but this is hardly maintaining the work...
...serious mistake to buy tickets to either Romeo, but A.B.T. has the stronger ballet and the superior staging. Both productions are almost ostentatiously grand. In neither is there a hint that Shakespeare set his story during a heat wave; the ladies are swathed in pounds of velvet, silk and gilt. But Designer Nicholas Georgiadis puts on a more magnificent ball in A.B.T.'s $900,000 show, and his Juliet is exquisitely costumed...