Word: savorable
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...material with a Hollywood ending. So far, he has closely followed his source novel, Gustav Hasford's taut, scary The Short-Timers. Now -- we will say no more -- Kubrick pretties up the climax with a bogus moral dilemma and some attenuated anguish. A viewer is finally left to savor earlier delights: the dialogue's wild, desperate wit; the daring in choosing a desultory skirmish to make a point about war's pointlessness; the fine, large performances of almost every actor (Ermey and D'Onofrio seem sure shots for Oscar nominations); most important, the Olympian elegance and precision of Kubrick...
Soon the President is among the faded glories of the West's oldest free traders and the doges of Venice, with a nip down to Rome Saturday to visit Pope John Paul II and savor a few of the things that last and last and last. Then follows the embrace of his high political compatriots, the more-or-less board of directors of the consortium of major industrialized free powers, a comforting, clubby, forgiving group, every one of them scarred and battered and worried. They listen and sympathize and even laugh with one another. They are pols...
...opening moments of Arthur Miller's first great play sketch a leafy backyard world as lazily enticing, and as deceptive, as the small-town dream that unfolds in the 1986 film Blue Velvet. As these neighbors in shirt sleeves slowly survey the morning, meander through a newspaper, savor a cigar, audience members cannot help longing to live in this clapboard paradise. . Until, that is, they find out what it is really like. The corruption beneath the surface in Blue Velvet is trendily psychosexual. In All My Sons it is economic and political. At the root of the play's evil...
...palated would bypass such choices and thereby miss some of the world's most carefully orchestrated seasonings as well as much of the drama of Chinese food. Snake cut in thin slivers and cooked in a soup suggests the most delicate chicken and, along with earthy black mushrooms, lends savor and body to the broth. Though a bit startling to the eye, thick, dark, firmly gelatinous sea slugs are delicious at Furong in Chengdu, where they are cooked in a velvety, dark sauce that is mellow with wine and fragrant with star anise. This is a sauce that would make...
This will definitely afford the Ciceros of Pretoria a real chance to savor a freedom they cherish so dearly in a down-home atmosphere. Vishwambhar Pati Assistant Professor of Mathematics