Word: splendor
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...ever achieved: a raft moving down a muddy river, a ragged family huddled on board; the final meeting of Gar rett and Billy back at Old Fort Sumner at night, with men moving like apparitions and dust blowing like a rasping fog. The whole film has a parched, eerie splendor that no one could really destroy...
Harvard hockey fans won't have to journey to the mecca of schoolboy hockey in Boston's 'combat zone' this year to watch the Crimson play Yale. Tonight's game has been moved from the scenic splendor of Boston Arena to the cozy confines of Watson Rink for an 8 p.m. face...
...surface, Richard Nixon's White House is a visual and mechanical marvel. Inside, where the President reigns in solitary splendor, the marvel is the man himself. The President's post-election campaign of self-assertion rolls on unchecked. Last week there still was no explanation of just why he had unleashed the massive B-52 bombing attack on North Viet Nam. His fiat to reorganize the Government caught the men elevated to super positions unawares and stunned the strata of bureaucracy below. Congress looked on in ignorance like the rest of the country. All through the nation Nixon...
...painting style it simulated. But in flat pattern, Renaissance and later embroiderers could and did achieve magnificent results-sometimes lighthearted and almost naive, as in the wool stitching of flowers, fruits and leaves on a white linen 18th century French dalmatic (or tunic); more often, of laboriously achieved splendor: the peacock displaying the green silk and gold-and-silver cord eyes and rays of his tail on a 16th century French chasuble, or the coiling festoons of gold grapes with silk chenille leaves that some anonymous craftworker applied to a 19th century Italian vestment...
...prematurely-long before the movie has meandered to a close. Besides Newman, playing a desperado who dabbles in rough-and-ready jurisprudence, the cast includes Jacqueline Bisset, Tab Hunter, Stacy Keach, Roddy McDowall, Anthony Perkins and Ava Gardner, none of whom measure up to Bruno's ursine splendor and sheer animal magnetism...