Word: splendored
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...America’s most important filmmakers, and the better part of that same decade shaking the good will earned by the films that gave him his reputation. Anderson’s characters—idiosyncratic, often emotionally opaque and depressive—inhabit worlds whose visual splendor assumes the sentiment, both delicate and deliberate, of an auteur—his awareness of the history of cinema giving way to reverence and innovation in equal parts. His films identify with a generation still in turmoil over lost innocence and the transition between adolescence and adulthood. He crystallized that ethos...
...narrative frame without reducing the enigma of its subject. Bronson’s art is, from what can be seen, mostly cartoonish grotesquery more reminiscent of Daniel Johnston than Basquiat, but his final “piece” is executed with as much theatrical verve and visual splendor in a series of moments as the rest of the film offers in its entirety...
They may not be willing to admit it, but some kids landed in Cambridge dying to sport the cotton luxury of grey and crimson: the classy splendor of DHAs...
...same frustrating passivity characteristic of the film as a whole. As noted, “Bright Star” is not a wholly disappointing experience. The actors uniformly deliver strong performances, only occasionally lapsing into facile sentimentalism. The cinematography is especially charming, and silent sequences highlighting the splendor of the countryside and the complexity of Brawne’s needlework are arrestingly beautiful. Poetry buffs will also likely delight in hearing Keats’ work in a different context; it is particularly interesting to hear his theories on poetry and the role of the poet as delivered to Brawne...
...bacon or growing your own wheat to grind into flour," Ruhlman wrote on his blog. "Yes, extra credit for either, but I want this to be a challenge that everyone can accept, whether you live in a Manhattan walk-up or rural North Carolina, Alaska or suburban splendor. From scratch means: You grow your tomato, you grow your lettuce, you cure your own bacon or pancetta, you bake your own bread (wild yeast is preferred and gets higher marks but is not required), you make your own mayo." (See pictures: "What the World Eats, Part...