Word: riche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Into this den of iniquity marches Sergeant Sarah Brown (Nan Hughes) at the head of her Salvation Army. Sarah has the misfortune to be at stake in a bet between Nathan Detroit, who needs a quick $1000 to finance his crap game, and "Sky" Masterson, a rich gambler looking for action. Detroit has but Sky that he cannot get the righteous Sister Sarah to go with him to Havana...
What the skilled camera sees in Rossellini is the rich texture of a life. Two top fashion photographers make almost identical observations about her. Richard Avedon calls her "a joy to work with-she's the product of an interesting life, not a model wired to a Walkman." Says Bruce Weber: "It's inspiring to shoot a woman who really is a woman, not a teen in woman's clothing. Isabella has turned everything around, making age, depth, experience, substance attractive...
There is little room in today's reckoning for the gorgeous playthings that the royals and the royally rich acquired insatiably in the three or four decades before World War I. The most sumptuous, superbly crafted of these frivolities were made by Peter Carl Fabergé, jeweler to the Romanovs, whose establishment in St. Petersburg poured out cascades of baubles and bibelots for nearly 50 years before the Bolsheviks banged on the door...
...worst, inconvenient. It is true that in Minnesota, winter remains a convicted killer. It is also true that things occur in a Southern spring, in north Alabama or Tennessee or the Shenandoah Valley, that go beyond the merely picturesque: a time-lapse film of blossoms opening, that sweet, rich awakening, a sensuous slow motion of nature...
Vellucci said that many "rich Harvard kids say they are eager to help the com- say they are eager in help the community of the poor. This should be a perfect example for the 'haves' to help the 'have-nots,' "he added...