Word: rococo
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...diamonds from the fabulous mines of Minas Gerais. Most of the gold went to the Portuguese Crown, but the little that the miners gleaned for themselves made them rich. To prove their piety, the miners embarked on a church-building spree that created some of the most handsomely rococo churches in South America. On these young António Francisco worked, first as carpenter, later as architect and sculptor...
Soon, convoys of army and civilian trucks were jamming the square in front of the rococo city hall, bringing load after load of Vietnamese-schoolboys, peasants, silk-robed girls, civil servants in their Sunday best. Before long there were about 100,000 people in the vast square, and the crowd began to stir with an ominous restlessness...
...scene but not the character was pure Christie. Serge Rubinstein belonged in spirit to an earlier, gamier era-the turn of the century, when too many of the continental rich were confirming Emile Zola's savage caricatures of their class. His life was a rococo embroidery of lies, boasts, swindles, treacheries, beautiful women and rich living. He was a crook-who called himself an international financier-and he got away with it because highly placed people were impressed by his spending and his line. After he had been repeatedly exposed in court for shady dealings and declared non grata...
Festival (by Sam and Bella Spewack) takes place in the rococo sunroom of a music impresario. Phones blare, tempers explode, rival artists snarl and spit. Then a lady music teacher arrives with a child prodigy to make things really hum. Soon she is rumored to be a famous pianist's discarded mistress and the prodigy their illegitimate son. With the child's real father suspecting his wife, and a lady cellist buzzing with sex. it all suggests a game of musical sofas...
...costumes-House of Flowers is a truly individual musical, to be saluted for what it possesses before being penalized for what it lacks. Truman Capote's tale of a bordello life full of genteel pretensions, and with far more high style than low instincts, has a nice rococo playfulness. Harold Arlen's score is attractive and unified, the songs delicate and unglib. About it all there hovers-despite no great amount of overt comedy-a sense of the humorous, and through it all move some excellent performers. Pearl Bailey can safely say almost anything, she looks so girlish...