Word: gloriousness
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...Expedition life is not as glorious as it is thought to be," Mayr says. "It is strenuous and dangerous, with malaria and dysentery. I wanted to go home and get published...
...Renaissance and Mannerism in Europe edited by Alain Gruber (Abbeville; $150). And the Lavishly Illustrated Award for 1994 goes to this first of a projected three-volume history of the decorative arts. Eight hundred plates, 500 in color, display ornamental works (painting, sculpture, furniture, textiles, ceramics and other glorious gewgaws) created between 1480 and 1630, a period in which European craftsman broke with the aesthetics of the Middle Ages and looked to antiquity for inspiration. This collection is stunning evidence that they found...
...friends apparently don't tell her she's wearing shoes of different shades. Why is Danny Aiello, as a buyer for a Chicago store, in the film? So he can cross-dress in a Chanel suit. At 60, Loren looks great, in or out of her array of glorious millinery, but it's cruel to have her and Mastroianni reprise the strip-tease scene from Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow with a cheap new punch line. Kellerman must endure the same naked shame she did a quarter-century ago in MASH. The heart sighs for these game folks. So much effort...
Richard Wagner envisioned something he called a Gesamtkunstwerk -- an all- encompassing work of art -- that would meld music, poetry, drama, dance and stagecraft into one unified, glorious spectacle. The Minimalist composer Philip Glass, 57, has been inviting comparison with Wagner ever since the 1976 debut of his four-hour epic Einstein on the Beach, Wagnerian in length and scope if not in idiom; and the Wagnerian ideal has been evident in much of his later work as well -- in Hydrogen Jukebox's marriage of Minimalism to the poetry of Allen Ginsberg (1990), and in 1,000 Airplanes on the Roof...
Especially sing. The second half of As You Like It is buoyed by Paddy Cunneen's lovely settings for Shakespeare's rollicking rhymes. Well, if men can be women, why can't words become songs? Suddenly, all the world's a musical stage. And this glorious production makes the stage like nothing else in the world...