Word: gorgeousity
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From the start, Morricone used eccentric instrumentation--not just humble toys like the harmonica and ocarina and panpipes but typewriters and tin cans--that, coupled with his profligate melodic gift, gave his films a gorgeous dissonance...
...your wives and smother their souls; wives and mothers, you are the wretched of the earth, condemned to a pathetic and pitiable existence.“Arlington Park” is an unbalanced novel that lacks the small moments of comic relief necessary for a really good read. As gorgeous as Cusk’s writing is, it rarely expresses more than bitterness. —Reviewer April B. Wang can be reached at abwang@fas.harvard.edu...
...when, on screen, this loveable character is suddenly sporting a six-pack or made up to look gorgeous, it feels unnatural and cheap. In the fourth movie, for example, an entire scene is dedicated to a female character trying to spy on him in the bath, and all the action scenes glorify his physique. In transfer from page to screen, Harry has become the brooding teenage hunk, fitting into the cheap, star-studded framework of Hollywood aesthetics. In the novel, Harry is exceptional for being a bookish hero; in the movie, for being some sort of jailbait Adonis. Even worse...
...Nemo got the publishing treatment it deserved: a full-size (21-by-16-in.) book called So Many Splendid Sundays, created with love and by Peter Maresca, a former designer at Apple. As an art book, it's as gorgeous as any devoted to Michelangelo or Matisse, and the reproductions are better. You may not find a shelf with vertical space big enough to hold this book; and don't put it on a coffee table (whose service it would nearly cover), less you spill some frappuccino on it. But buy and treasure it - and hope that, unlike my copy...
...Swiss mountain town and get on with their usual Davos pastimes - counting heads of government; balancing champagne flutes and canapés; sneaking off for a quick run or two on the slopes (and since you ask, yes, a constant dusting during the week made the pistes gorgeous when the sun finally came out on Sunday, as the photo opposite proves). Plus, there's now celeb spotting, even if it is of a peculiarly Davos kind - by which I mean that nobody misses Sharon Stone or Brangelina, but delegates get quite excited if a session...