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...afloat. She weighed 46,328 gross tons and was 882.5 ft., roughly 3 1/2 city blocks long. Her engines, developing 55,000 h.p., could drive the Titanic at a speed of up to 25 knots. And the luxury suites (price: $4,350 for an Atlantic crossing) contained elegant furnishings, sumptuous draperies and even private promenade decks...
...with old masters than with contemporary painting. The paint acquires a wonderful plenitude in becoming flesh. One thinks of the coruscated light, the Venetian red interstitial drawing, in Tintoretto. This kind of paint surface is part of the work of delivering sensations, not propositions, and it is neither idly sumptuous nor "ironically" sexy. But the one thing it cannot reliably do is fix the extreme disjuncture between Bacon's figures and their backgrounds. The contrast of the two -- the intense plasticity of the figures, the flat staginess of the rooms and spaces in which they convulse themselves -- is what gives...
DIED. Charles LeMaire, 88, designer of glittering, sumptuous costumes for Hollywood films from 1943 to 1960 and, before that, for more than 60 Broadway shows, including the '20s extravaganzas of Florenz Ziegfeld; in Palm Springs, Calif. After successfully campaigning for an Oscar category in costume design (it started in 1948), he was nominated 16 times and won for All About Eve (1950), The Robe (1953) and Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing...
...Company of Wolves Jordan has wrought a veritable wonderland. The film is so visually sumptuous that, despite its shallow characterization and sometimes blatant psychologizing, it cannot fail to please the ethically inclined. It is a flawed cinematic gem but for all its cracks it gives a lovely light...
...before. I believe that people also identify with the characters. There is a little of Mozart in each of us, and perhaps a great deal of Salieri." For Forman and Shaffer the challenge was to transform Shaffer's stage play, where much is left to the imagination, into a sumptuous movie that includes fully staged operas, grand palaces and hundreds of beautifully costumed extras. For five months the two men worked in virtual isolation in Forman's Connecticut home. At first, Shaffer found disconcerting the process of dismantling his original handiwork. Finally, he says, "I decided it was better...