Word: splendor
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...Reading "Stripburek" gives the impression that the Iron Curtain resulted in a kind of comix Galapagos where the avant-garde, poetical and parable possibilities of comix evolved in unexploited splendor. Danijel Zezelj's "Petrified Tree" uses high-contrast, slashing brushwork to interpret a poem by Pier Paolo Pasolini. Lucie Markvartova's "Switch On-Off" builds a story out of all the buttons a finger must push throughout the day. Many pieces are like Wostok and Grabowski's fantastical "Daddy Where Are You," about a little girl who follows Daddy's beard through all manner of obstacles only to find...
...These days, the marble-tiled veranda is the perch of choice for whiling away an afternoon in pseudo-Victorian splendor. Inside the grand four-story colonial building, the sweeping staircase and threadbare red carpet bear witness to a glittering past and can coax out the romantic in anyone. There are more luxurious hotels in the capital, sure, but do any of them set out birdbaths for a resident colony of sparrows...
...were most in the sun drenched crowd of 30,000 assortedly-pierced spectators who witnessed the halfpipe, staged in the blue splendor of the Wasatch mountains at the Park City Resort. How different is this sport? There was a warm-up act, the band Save Ferris playing at avalanche -inducing volume to the slushy mosh pit that formed in front of it. There's a sound track to snowboarding too, as each rider selects a song (from a pre-approved list) to play during his or her run, although most of the riders were listening to their own tunes. Kass...
That wait came to an end last month when Prime Minister Lionel Jospin officially opened the "Palais de Tokyo, site for contemporary arts." With breathtaking imposture, architects Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal transformed the monumental 1930s splendor of the Palais de Tokyo building into an exact replica of a derelict warehouse - spending $3.3 million of French taxpayers' money in the process. Exposed electrical cabling runs along the ceiling's chipped I beams. The plaster walls of the main exhibition space are randomly gashed and pockmarked. The café's price list is scrawled onto sheets of brown paper...
...Marie," 1929. The dawn broke for this genial lilter with a waltz-time hit (#2) by Rudy Vallee. Then the moon in all its splendor shone on Berlin in 1937, when a Tommy Dorsey version, in swingin' 4/4 time, reached #1. It was also a #13 charter for the Four Tunes in 1953 and a #15 for the Bachelors in 1965 - 36 years after its first appearance...