Word: sumptuous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mistress Mine is the comedy the Lunts played in London last season under the no less Shakespearean title of Love in Idleness (TIME, Jan. 1, 1945). It tells of an attractive, broke widow who has been living in gay, sumptuous sin with a wartime British Cabinet Minister. Then her priggish, pinko 17-year-old son (well played by Dick Van Patten) comes home after five years at school in Canada. He forces his mother to choose between him and her lover and (possibly because a show must keep going until 11 o'clock) she chooses...
Other standouts: a competently sumptuous Nude at the Mirror, by Georges Capon; Edouard Goerg's fuzzy, dreamy Midnight Bouquet, reminiscent of the 19th-Century Romanticist Odilon Redon; and Astarté, by André Marchand. Marchand, in his 30s, is considered one of the "younger" painters. His picture of green flesh, black water and blue sand was startling in a show full of surprises. The most surprising thing about it was that he had painted the sky blue...
Soon the U.S. was obsessed with a challenging peacetime problem- plumbing. Soon it had the most luxurious bathrooms since Haroun A; Rashid piped Tigris water into Bagdad-and in much th esame stryle. It also had the fastest automobile and airplanes, the most lavish radios, the most sumptuous refrigerators, the baggiest plust fours, the biggest skyscrapers housing the biggest millionaires, the biggest speakeasies, the biggest racketeers and gang wars, the biggest crime wave, and in the end the biggest depression, winding up in the biggest war in history...
...stag party. He also loves the Democratic Party. Last week the President brought the two loves together for a gala two days of eating, drinking, ribbing, horseshoe-pitching and politicking. The picnic grounds were the Jefferson Islands Club, three dots of green in the middle of Chesapeake Bay, a sumptuous hideaway dedicated to simon-pure Democracy. The President's playmates: more than 200 Democrats-Congressmen and Cabinet members, a few business bigwigs, a few tried & true old friends...
Touché. If the remark bothered le grand Charlie, he did not show it. Next morning it was his turn. He met U.S. newsmen at the sumptuous residence of Ambassador Henri Bonnet. He seemed completely at ease, smiled as a newsman brought up the President's remarks. Oh, yes, said Charlie, he could understand the U.S. President's being "struck" by some stories in France's newspapers. He, himself, had also been frequently "struck" by stories about him in the U.S. press...