Word: gorgeousity
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...tell the truth, no ambitious movie is quite so simple as magazine trend pieces may try to make it seem. Certainly not Heaven & Earth, which is thematically grotesque but visually gorgeous: the camera takes in the spectacle of Southeast Asia (Thailand mostly, stunt-doubling for Vietnam) with the rapture of an intelligent lover. Because it traces Phung Le Ly's life story, the film is dramatically misshapen: its most singing moments are in the first half. And audiences may be as weary of Stone's haranguing about Vietnam as they are afraid of people with AIDS. But if Stone simplifies...
...that only comes around once a year. For lovers of ballet, this year's performance is especially entertaining because it offers the best dancing the Boston Ballet has seen this season. But the 140,000 people who will see this years show clearly proves that the combination of humor, gorgeous dancing, holiday spirit and beautiful music reaches out beyond lovers of ballet to all audiences...
Some of the stories have the loose, easy air of anecdotes. In Sleeping Beauty and the Airplane, a man sees a gorgeous South American woman at the Charles de Gaulle Airport near Paris and then finds himself seated next to her on the eight-hour flight to New York City. She sleeps the whole time...
...normal college theatre procedure, the men in Drood are far better dressed than the women. Costume Designer Tinadetta Lee has outfitted the male characters in several splendid variations of Victorian dress--special note should be made of Jasper's splendid frock coat and purple waistcoat. Other than the gorgeous tatters of Princess Puffer, however, the women are mostly stuffed into badly tailored, frumpy dresses...
...even come to like the snow. Sure, blizzards in May are a tad excessive, but at least when it snows, enough of the white stuff sticks around to turn the campus into a gorgeous winter wonderland. (In Seattle, a few inches fall, the entire city shuts down in panic and by the next day, it all turns to grey slush...