Word: lavishness
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This is curiously refreshing. So is the notion that a studio would lavish a huge budget on a movie whose basic business is consciously to satirize a genre that until recently tended to be low-rent and pretty much self-satirizing. Maybe this is an all too conspicuous waste of precious cinematic resources. But you have to admire everyone's chutzpah: the breadth of Burton's (and writer Jonathan Gems') movie references, which range from Kurosawa to Kubrick; and above all their refusal to offer us a single likable character. Perhaps they don't create quite enough deeply funny earthlings...
Leonardo composed the notebook between 1508 and 1510, during a time when he was approaching 60 and shuttling between Milan and Florence, engaged principally as a hydraulic engineer but somehow also finding time to conduct dissections, stage lavish entertainments for his royal patrons and paint his masterpiece, the Mona Lisa. He skips from astronomy to the flight of projectiles, but his major theme is water and its mysterious behavior--its varying flow and pressures, its intersecting currents, its ability to rearrange the countryside...
...rest of the play takes place in the Ekdal apartment, a modest but comfortably homelike apartment of which we see only the kitchen and studio. Here Hjalmer rules as king, with a devoted wife (Karen MacDonald) and adoring daughter Hedvig (Emma Roberts) who lavish their care on him and serve him almost slavishly. Here, too, his aged father (Jerome Kilty) can forget his disgrace in alcohol--when he can get it. There is a storeroom which he has converted into a small forest with a few pine trees and some rabbits, where he can relive his days as a great...
Armchair travelers can look forward to some impressive time trips in the season ahead. An abundance of forthcoming coffee-table books devote lavish pictures and well-chosen words to the surviving splendors of past civilizations. They offer visual nurturing and food for thought...
DIED. JEAN-BEDEL BOKASSA, 75, ex-Central African President and self-proclaimed Emperor who ruled for 13 years as one of Africa's most brutal despots; in Bangui. His lavish, bizarre and murderous ways embarrassed his chief patron, France, which finally helped depose...