Word: lushing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Architect Kevin Roche pioneered at the Ford Foundation headquarters in New York City. This eliminates the endless, oppressive corridors of other congressional buildings and lets additional daylight into the offices, which are entered from open galleries surrounding the atrium. Unlike the Ford Foundation's atrium, which sports a lush tropical garden, the Hart Building's inner court is as yet a marble void. Plans for a huge sculpture by Alexander Calder (the last he designed before he died in 1976) were cut from the budget. Something is needed here. Elsewhere, Warnecke has created spots of charm...
...scenes--the three dancing, picnicking on the Hudson, whirling through Coney Island, walking to the top of a floodlit bridge. The sex scenes are carefully elliptical--more so than the book and the Auschwitz sequence, while suggesting horrors, discreetly avoids trying to show the unspeakable. The score is as lush as scenery and plot. The near-perfection with which everything fits together, technically and artistically, may be what's responsible for the slight sense of distance that hangs over this trio's tortured Gothic emotions. But of course, perfection being what it is, that sense doesn't keep Sophie...
Alexander Zemlinsky: Lyric Symphony (Deutsche Grammophon). Lorin Maazel leads a vivid performance of this lush, intense late romantic song cycle...
...Morreau leaves questions unanswered that might explain the mother's passionate nature. The movie's only believable relationship--between Marie and her grandmother--develops because of the sensitive performance of the actresses. Signoret and Chauveau present experience and youth naturally. Their closeness blossoms during their midnight escapades into a lush garden for magical powders. But Morreau spoils even this relationship by miring the girl in an ambiguous ending. Left with a distraught vision of Marie and her grandmother standing by, helpless and confused. We don't know whether Marie's unhappiness will prove transitory or permanent...
...thank Him. Then I lean over and touch John and thank him too." They settled into a two-story apartment on New York's Fifth Avenue and spent weekends on a $3.5 million, 430-acre estate in rural New Jersey, an hour from Manhattan. They also own a lush 48-acre spread in California's San Diego County; it has been on the market for $4 million, and last week the price was raised to $5 million?the amount of De Lorean's bail...