Word: splendor
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...fruit of knowledge--recent Biblical study indicates--he entered a new realm. No longer the chosen son, he was forced, as undergraduates say, "to sweat it." As a consequence, the real ethos of the Expulsion Complex is nostalgia; embellished reminiscences in which one's pre-Harvard splendor may become, in retrospect near dazzling...
RHINO! African melodrama as it should be done-with scenic splendor and crackling humor-tied to a timely story about a hunt for a pair of rare white rhinos...
Rococo was a royal style, yet one born of relief at the passing away of the splendor and pomp of Versailles and Louis XIV. Aristocrats yearned to lay aside their powdered wigs and play peasant. Marie-Antoinette's fake hamlet in the Trianon park was a doll's house for kings in fustian and queens in dirndls. Watteau and Boucher drew members of the nobility in shepherds' clothing. But aristocracy saw poverty as happy simplicity, not as a wretched problem. Came the French Revolution of 1789, and the wistful sound in the sea shell was no longer...
...Caper. Rhadamés and his fellow "ins" live like royalty, tooling around Switzerland, France and Spain in a fleet of Cadillacs, Jaguars and Mercedeses, accompanied by scores of servants, bodyguards and hangers-on. Rhadamés, who looks after the investments in France, cuts the caper in splendor on a $5,000,000 estate near Evreux, with his wife and 15 servants; his three stallions and 20 champion brood mares are already the talk of French racing. In Madrid, Ramfis, his mother and a few other family members occupy three $50,000 apartments in a fashionable section...
...soldiers who cannot precede the King down stairs without appearing to be very much afraid they will trip. It was a clever idea to include a draw-bridge in the set, but the one in the current production draws attention to itself with its creaking, instead of adding splendor to Bolingbroke's entrance over it. And while much can obviously be done with heraldic devices in all the history plays, this Richard is literally cluttered with them...