Word: gorgeous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Synge's plot saves its surprises for the end. But what lingers behind is the recollection of all that brave, gorgeous language and one fine scene when Christy and Pegeen declare their love against a hillock of dune grass, with the dappling sunlight going dim and bright all the while behind the hurrying October clouds...
...love affairs, but because, sophisticated and all that, he just can not put up with hers. So Constanza is left with her daughter Flavia, who at the age of ten shows similar signs of wit and wantonness. It is very Grand Opera indeed, complete with a potty plot, gorgeous scenery, some nice, old-fashioned novelistic business about missing rubies and revoked wills, and mercifully crisp recitative...
...christening would have made news in any event; the baby was the granddaughter of Benito Mussolini. But it was Gorgeous Godmother Sophia Loren who brought the wrath of L'Osservatore Romano down on everyone's heads. Sophia was asked by her sister Maria, wife of Pianist Romano Mussolini, to be godmother to two-week-old Alessandra. Unfortunately, Sophia's spiritual adviser, Jesuit Father Virginio Rotondi, neglected to tell her that in so doing she would be violating Article 2357 of canon law. So long as Italian and church law block Producer Carlo Ponti's divorce from...
Fate turns up in the form of a gorgeous 17-year-old bohemian named Charlotte, the daughter of Georgie's childhood love. Charlotte is a dreadful shock to everyone at Wellington College: they wear tweeds and say "homosexual''; she wears leotards and says "faggot." The scene in which this Lorelei reawakens the red-eared adolescent in Georgie is worth some study. They are alone; she reclines on black satin. She murmurs: "I was just wondering what would happen if in addition to dinner and the ballet tonight, we gave ourselves some of the ultimate pleasures...
...gorgeous, $300,000 brick-and-wrought-iron townhouse in Manhattan's east 705, filled with primitive masks and sophisticated paintings by numerous young artists whose work he wants to en courage He owns two harbors and an isthmus in Rhodes, which he discovered when he filmed The Guns of Navarone...