Word: lusciousness
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...unhappily, the baron stops looking at himself just long enough to notice his luscious young cousin (Stefania Sandrelli). His mustache bristles. From that moment he is a man with a mono mania: off with the old wife (Daniella Rocca), on with the new. Furtively he riffles through a lawbook, evilly he smiles at what he finds, cunningly he recruits a lover for his wife. It isn't easy. For one thing, she has a mustache almost as fluffy as his own. For another, she is pugnaciously, insultingly faithful...
...theatrical high notes. Rather, she plays the part as it is written: as an intense and sentimental romantic, with little but the intensity of her emotion to commend her to her audience. But the romanticism of the part as it is portrayed by Miss Elias secures its effect. The luscious music comes through powerfully and straightforwardly. The many musical lessons Miss Elias has learned in her relatively short but very distinguished career at the Metropolitan serve her well in the music tent. Her top notes are secure, and the dark, lower tones of her voice emphasize the deeply emotional power...
...found that what struck him most vividly on re-entering the U.S. was the gaudy luxury of the drugstore and hamburger stands. And so he began painting food, "Meringue is a beautiful substance," he says, "but there also is a connection with the quality of the paint, the luscious, fatty richness of oil paint and the greasiness of meats and buttery frostings. This is a still-life area we have a tendency to take for granted...
...original orchestration exults in a luscious palette of tone colors. But in 1928 Webern revised the score for a performance in Berlin. A personal tendency toward leaner writing, as well as the postwar decline in the size of orchestras, led him to reduce the number and variety of the brasses, woodwinds, and percussion...
...royal effort is also most successful: the King of Siam, it would appear, has a considerable talent for writing a luscious tune, and the Krokodiloes exploit it with their most melodious croons. Or almost their most melodious: the boys have also included their celebrated "Blah" (a gentle moaning jibe at movie songs...