Word: splendorful
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...Show. The crowds at the Waldorf would eye the Cadillacs, perhaps with envy, but what they really went to see were the cars they could buy. Here there were some touches of splendor...
...biggest eye-poppers were four $30,000 Cadillacs, the costliest production cars ever built in the U.S. (and described by hard-breathing pressagents as "sleek and sybaritic specimens of automotive splendor...
Praise. Was the applause only for Flagstad's voice? (The reviews next day were unanimous: "Flagstad Returns, Greater Than Ever." The Herald Tribune called her "incomparably the most distinguished of living singers." The Times spoke of "eloquence and splendor unequaled in this writer's experience.") Or was the cheering also for Kirsten Flagstad the woman-a way of saying that the past was over, that her political sins were forgiven...
Words and Music (MGM) has just the right proportions of garlicky bad taste and more than Oriental splendor which (plus Technicolor) add up to a Hollywood dream of heaven-an M-G-M supermusical. Somewhere in this mixture-as-before is a version of the careers of Richard Rodgers and the late Lorenz Hart, preserved from too much resemblance to reality throughout...
...could not disguise his lurching, hand-wringing acting. Like most Met stage lovers, he more often sang of his passion to Conductor Busch, at whom he stared fixedly, than to Desdemona. The Bronx's burly Leonard Warren couldn't have sung the role of lago with more splendor and imagination-or acted it with less. Soprano Licia Albanese, in her first Met Desdemona, was fine in her lyrical moments in the Willow Song and the magnificent Ave Maria; but as a dramatic soprano, she lacked enough voltage to electrify the house...