Word: rococo
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...forces of history, the aristocracy of 18th century Europe elected to live out its autumn in a sort of perpetual costume party. It was an age of elaboration, in manners and art, essentially frivolous but with a concealed streak of autumnal sadness. Its curlicued style came to be called rococo...
...sounds, look a bit like hippos catching peanuts. But the DeLuxe Color is tastefully mixed, and the camera is held by a master (Giuseppe Rotunno). What's more, the camera is pointed at something fiercely beautiful: Sicily. Yellow palazzi peep through dark-green foliage like colossal lemons; vast rococo ball rooms drown the mind in a delirium of pink cherubs and gilt-plaster scrolls; and out of the dark-blue sea the big Sicilian mountains leap like orange flames...
...even after opening night the wait went on. Impresario Hurok filled the stage with ballets as old and rococo as the Metropolitan Opera House itself. Then he tried the most loyal fans' patience by first presenting Fonteyn and her young new premier danseur in Giselle-one of the most forgettable of all ballets. She danced well, but that was nothing new. So did he, but still nobody could tell whether he could live up to his billing...
...more than three generations of housewives around the world, the name Rosenthal meant German china with rococo curlicues and baroque designs. Nowadays, would-be buyers do a double take over the clean, contemporary simplicity of Rosenthal porcelain, which has taken the play away from Wedgwood to become the largest-selling quality china imported into the U.S. from Europe. Rosenthal plans to set up its own self-contained china units at stores throughout the U.S., recently opened one at Manhattan's Altman's and plans to open nine more before year...
...minute discussion was conducted under large portraits of Lenin and Khrushchev in a heavily glided rococo room that one Harvard visitor suggested would have been more appropriate as a Czarist embassy...