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...very same Glyde and his flamboyant Italian accomplice, Count Fosco. Among the country mansions and shadowy villages of Hampshire and Cumberland, the three find their fates terrifyingly entwined. Where Lloyd Webber scores is with the score. It would have been easy for the composer to fall back on a lush, serve-all orchestral cushion. But to his credit, he tries something sparse, minimalist and deliberately discomfiting. In a scene borrowed from a Charles Dickens story (The Signalman), the Act I curtain rises on a bitingly cold railway cutting, telegraph wires whipping ominously in the wind. It's an unsettling, otherworldly...
JUST ADD ACTORS The lush, retro Sky Captain was made using only computer-created sets...
...Indeed, throughout her career, there's been criticism that Nair, despite her gift for lush and stylish spectacles, crams too much onto the screen and tends to lack depth. She claims not to care: "My feeling is that I do what I do, then I offer it to the world. I hope people will be affected by it, watch it and are impressed. I aim to put bums on seats. But that's not to say that I'm confident or unconfident. I don't think about the fruits of my actions. I just do the work...
...grilled cheese sandwich is the sort of dish that doesn't seem to need a recipe, let alone an entire cookbook devoted to it. But in Great Grilled Cheese, Laura Werlin offers up 50 lush versions of the oozing classic. Along with her opinion of "the best grilled cheese" (cheddar on sourdough), she explores a Dutch-inspired gouda with red onions on rye, right, four Italian cheeses on ciabatta, and a caprese with mozzarella offering a sweet contrast to tangy sun-dried tomatoes and lemon zest. There are even desserts like goat cheese and honey on cinnamon-raisin bread...
...risk are not only natural ecosystems and agricultural enterprises but also the multiple amenities that people living in the West have for so long taken for granted: ski resorts and golf courses, green lawns and lush gardens, swimming pools and hot tubs, not to mention such modern necessities as dishwashers and flush toilets and the hydropower that keeps refrigerators and home computers humming. Caught off guard, political leaders and water-resource managers have been turning to scientists for help. What do researchers know about patterns of drought in North America? What do they think occurred in the mid-1990s when...