Word: sumptuously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ricki Starr, played by Ricki Starr. And a black one called Lillywhite-don't you just love it? Ricki wears red ballet slippers and pirouettes in the ring. And Lilly has these terrific pectorals and wears a mask like Batman. He kind of falls for this absolutely sumptuous rock-'n'-roll singer, Christian, played by David Anthony. But before he can kidnap him, some wretched girls-the Touchables, they call themselves-capture Christian and spirit him away. They also steal some statues. The statues are the ones with expressions...
...directors' taste in revivals remains impeccable. Jean Renoir's Toni, made in 1934, is a gentle, loving tribute to the peasants of pre-Civil War Spain. The uncut version of Max Ophuls' Lola Montes (1955), never commercially released in the U.S., is one of the most sumptuous romances ever filmed. Among the other festival highlights...
...breathing literal life into a traditional sailors' tale-the one about an impotent rich man who hires a seaman to impregnate his young wife. The millionaire flags down a 17-year-old seaman and an aging girl-about-town (Jeanne Moreau) and puts them in his sumptuous bedchamber. The sailor, he cackles, will one day tell the story of his exploit-and for the first time in history, that yarn will be founded on truth...
...your story on the two sumptuous housewarming gatherings in Portugal [Sept. 13]: I am amazed that TIME would have me saying "an earthquake . . . is no reason for me not to go to a ball" without troubling to check the authenticity. For your information, I have never made such a statement. Furthermore, since you do not clearly mention it in your article, let me also inform you that I did not at tend either party precisely because of the disaster that struck my country...
...increasing affluence, the rich not only get richer but become more jaded in the process. And yet the high life somehow must go on. The challenge is to create an event so special, so sumptuous, so unequaled that it cannot be missed. Everybody must talk about it for months, charter yachts, planes and limousines, book hairdressers, order new ball gowns, do and dare anything just to be there. No matter how boring it is once they get there, just having their names on the guest list automatically makes them Beautiful People...