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...more exalted orders of ogling. As it plays out its melodrama, it | radiates a ravishing color scheme; it delights in the symmetrical framing of gorgeous objects, human and architectural. For the Westerner, it offers a tour of exotic lands and customs: China in its last imperial gasp. How very sumptuous, you will say of the visual style -- though Red Lantern was made for an impossibly thrifty $1 million...
BOOKS Deck the shelves with sumptuous volumes...
Michelangelo's mission was to reveal the beauty of God's creation; these books reveal the beauty of Michelangelo's creation. Scholars once spoke of the artist's "sober coloring." These sumptuous volumes, depicting the chapel's restoration, reveal just how wrong they were...
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST. One day your kids will be taking their kids to this sumptuous Disney cartoon. Adults will be touched too, by a parable about the tyranny of convention and the liberation of love. It's also about magic mirrors, singing candlesticks and the art of drawing pictures that move people. A fairy tale for all ages...
...what hath Harvard PR and West German millions wrought? The noble two-story Naumburg Room in the Fogg has been closed to the public, to be filled with offices and filing cabinets. The magnificent old Germanic Museum on Kirkland Street provides a sumptuous abode for the Center for European Studies, air-conditioned, we presume...