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...show's sorcerer, has borrowed Prospero's wand. He conjures up scenes of potent magic that prove as evanescent as dreams. What is palpably dazzling merges imperceptibly with razzle-dazzle. The sheer richness of the surrounding technique and texture blanches the text. Robin Wagner's scenic design consists of stark metal, light-crammed towers that move and revolve to form a kaleidoscope of geometric patterns. Costumer Theoni V. Aldredge must have purchased her swatches from a rainbow merchant to fashion the slinky, sequined gowns, and Tharon Musser's lighting is a palette of explosive colors...
...screenplay, by Gilliam and co-Python Michael Palin, is eclectic to the point of being wholly derivative, both thematically and visually. It draws on everything from the anti-modern stance of A Clockwork Orange, to the scenic flash of Raiders of the Lost Ark, to the overt tackiness of the original Flash Gordon: yet it remains an underwhelming story. The adventure involves Kevin, a young, modern-age Briton (not so much played as walked through by unknown Craig Warnock), whose parents ive in subservience to hundreds of whirring, useless kitchen apparati and sit transfixed as horrific gameshows prance across...
...time is 8:07 this morning, with fog predicted to obscure much of the Stowe Country Club's scenic 18 holes. However, Carroll Lowenstein, who will hit Harvard's first shot of the day, is known to have attempted instrumental navigation in the past...
...most part, it is a good story indeed. It commences in 1915 somewhere Down Under in the scenic and arid ranching country of western Australia. There, 18-year-old Archy Hamilton lives with his family and trains with his uncle to be a championship sprinter. Despite having more talent than anyone in western Australia, Archy, like anyone else who has ever been on a ranch or a farm and in a movie, bolts. Finding the opportunity to get away after his first big race in a distant town, Archy informs his uncle-mentor that...
...accommodations are now available even in New York City. Most are bedrooms in apartments in such diverse sites as the loft quarter of SoHo and Roosevelt Island in the East River, which is reached from midtown Manhattan by way of a scenic 3½-min. tram ride. Urban Ventures Inc., a booking service for New York B & Bs, has about 120 listings, nearly all in Manhattan. The most desirable rooms are also centrally located. "What they really want," jokes Mary McAulay, Urban Ventures' co-owner, "is a room at the Metropolitan Museum of Art." Rates for New York...