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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Princesses in A Pretty Prison | 4/6/1992 | See Source »

BOOKS Deck the shelves with sumptuous volumes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page | 12/16/1991 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: O Come All Ye Faithful Readers | 12/16/1991 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Dec. 2, 1991 | 12/2/1991 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard's Architecture Is Busch-League | 11/6/1991 | See Source »

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