Word: splendid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Traven's books-sea, stories and Mexican adventure novels laced with bitter comments on the futility of modern man-have had a tremendous following in Latin America and in Europe. In the U.S. he was virtually unknown until his Treasure of the Sierra Madre was made into a splendid movie...
...brushed by the pastel veils of an Indian sari. Vodka, French wines and odd Eastern European cocktails spill on the oriental rugs from glasses negligently tilted or moved in too hasty gesticulation. There are lavish loads on two great buffet tables: platters of sliced veal and chicken, salads in splendid variety, tidy piles of caviar. In the center of one table is a roast pig (with a tomato in its mouth) which is gradually dissected by Soviet officers as the gay evening advances...
First prizewinner was Giorgio Morandi, a mild modern who has become, at 58, Italy's favorite artist. Morandi's splendid reputation might be difficult for some exhibition visitors to grasp. It is built on his collection of used bottles, which he arranges in table-top still lifes and paints in a manner as surpassingly empty and dry as the bottles themselves...
...funeral-which Harrison attended with his wife to show gossips they were not "rifting"-was a splendid affair. She was buried holding an orchid in one hand and wearing two on her dress...
...Crusades. A revival of Cecil B. DeMille's splendid pageant of medieval Europe at The Great Noontide of religious energy (TIME, June...