Word: splendid
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...June just to take in the scene, he started in Nisantasi?known as the Beverly Hills of the city?checking out the fashion group Beymen's premier store. Most of the Fendi bags were sold out or back-ordered on waiting lists. Next, he headed to Kanyon, an architecturally splendid new development comprising living, working and shopping areas with sweeping, cantilevered elevations, broad thoroughfares and intriguing side streets...
...lure of stories about families in turmoil who live in haunted houses and are visited by strangers who change the families' lives. But this time, I'll get straight to the assessments. For me, Mary Poppins worked, at a level higher than efficient and just this side of splendid. The pleasures of Grey Gardens are more mixed. It boasts a glorious performance by Christine Ebersole as both mother and daughter (I'll explain later), and Best Support by Mary Louise Wilson, in a smart show whose main deficiency is exactly what so many modern musicals lack: good music...
...There Goes the Neighborhood” is built on deeply-reported surveys of the demographic and social changes in four Chicago neighborhoods, which are identified by pseudonyms. The short book is a splendid observational study—the research is conducted dispassionately and without favor, and the professors offer almost no solutions or policy prescriptions, realizing, it seems, that doing so substantially is the work of another book...
...security guard at a five-star hotel. There he is mistaken for a journalist and whisked into a press banquet, one of many held in today's China to launch everything from[an error occurred while processing this directive] literacy campaigns to property developments. After a splendid meal - with an envelope of cash "for your troubles" - Dan has a revelation: all he needs to continue this charmed life is a fake business card and a nonexistent website. Thus begins Dan's career in journalism - and Geling Yan's shark-fin-sharp satire on cuisine and corruption in contemporary China...
...main mouse here is the one attached to a computers. The design of the underworld is pretty splendid, with an imaginative scope and attention to detail that might have taken decades to realize if each piece had to be constructed and painted, rather than simply texted and input. You certainly won't see thumbprints on the characters, as were occasionally visible in the fingers-on-clay movies. This one is as polished as a formica table top in the kitchen of a neat-freak housewife. The question is whether the Aardmen lost some of stop-motion's charm, its humanity...