Word: lavishly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recruiting by coaches, proselytizing, tryouts, all expenses paid visits to campuses, lavish entertainment of prospects, or extravagant promises by alumni...
...months in the shooting at Italy's Cinecitta Studios, nine minutes short of three hours in the theater, the picture recreates ancient Rome with massive splendor and lavish detail. Nero's court lolls midst pleasures and palaces. Massed legions march in triumph through crowd-choked avenues. Mobs flee the burning city and storm Nero's palace. Christian martyrs fall to a pack of lions, burn by the score at rows of stakes in the arena of the Circus Maximus. One of them, Ursus...
Needless to say, all five roles need not be present in every music review. Yet Mr. Murray would restrict the critic to judging performance only, when the composer and his product is far more vital. There is already a dangerous tendency today to lavish all on performers and to regard new composers as intruders in a well established game. It is significant that, without exception, every one of the greater music critics--such as Rellstab, Hoffman, Heine, Schumann, Hanslick and G. B. Shaw--owes that greatness almost exclusively to what he wrote about the composer and his music, not about...
Although there have been other artistic motion pictures, Trnka's work does very well without the lavish surrealism of predecessors like "The Red Shoes" and "Tales of Hoffman." And its delicacy and restraint can not help but charm an audience...
Technicolor musical fans will get what they deserve in the latest Betty Grable extravaganza. "Meet Me After the Show." Experienced addicts may be able to tell this picture from her last one, but the time-worn Grable formula remains unchanged--the picture consists of five lavish dance scenes glued together with just enough plot to give the show some semblance of continuity...