Word: sumptious
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...entertainment takes place in a carriage which plunges through the countryside on its escape from Paris, Filling this carriage are a scandalous/novelist/social historian/pornographer named Restif de la Bretonne (Jean-Louis Barrault); an aging but still engaging Casanova (Marcello Mastroianni); the dry English essayist Thomas Paine (Harvey Keitel); a sumptious Comtesse Sophie de la Borde, lady-in-waiting to Marie Antoinette (Hanna Schygulla); and various peripheral caricatures of the aristocracy. The wit, the life-blood of an era contained in one carriage, offer the potential for a rich entertainment, but the result is an uneven and tedious sequence of quarrels...
...cream parlor sitters return to Bailey's, that venerable institution on Brattle St. Closest to an old-fashioned soda fountain, Bailey's sports tables and the most sumptious sundaes in the Square...
After the men's tennis match with Columbia Saturday, the Harvard team members sat in coach Dave Fish's office stuffing their faces with rich brownies and sumptious chocolate cake that had been birthday gifts to Fish. But it was earlier in the day that Fish received the present he really wanted: his squad crushed Columbia, 7-2, on the Soldiers Field courts...
...ideal alternatives beyond the life he actually leads as it is about acting; as much about a liberal respect for individual nature as it is about anything. Made in garages and abandoned sets in occupied France (several cast members were in the Resistance), the film's atmosphere is sumptious, yet vital. With Jean-Louis Barrault as the mime Baptiste Debureau, Pierre Brasseur as the actor Frederick Lemaitre. Marcel Herrand is the philosophic killer Lacenaire (and for anyone who looks closely, the moral heart of the film), and Arietty is the love they all pursue...
...scene is laid on Long Island. There is a mildly sumptious house, in which live: 1) a harassed business man, the paterfamilias, who has just returned from Washington with the old gags about the alphabet agencies, 2) a lovable old grandmother, 3) a debutante, the daughter, and 4) a playboy, the son. This is called The Typical American Home...
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