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Word: sumptuously (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wasn't always a lot of fun to be a woman in that set, where the ladies could be called tramps at a moment's notice. Or to be Sammy Davis Jr., who had to endure Sinatra's cornball racial jesting at its worst. But for Sinatra, the sumptuous early '60s were a Golden Age, when gambling was still glamorous, smoking had charm and "dapper" was something you might actually want to be called. Naturally he was infatuated with J.F.K., just 18 months younger, an Irishman born to the Ivy League credentials and Establishment credibility that Sinatra never...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ring-A-Ding Ding | 5/25/1998 | See Source »

MASK OF ZORRO (July 17). This twentysomethingth version of the Latino avenger fable looks sumptuous and serious. Yet one wonders about Antonio Banderas, a sexy, able actor whose films almost no one pays to see. Is he the Spanish Jeff Bridges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Aieee! It's Summer!! | 5/11/1998 | See Source »

...twice named him Foreign Minister and in 1995 appointed him President of the Constitutional Council, roughly equivalent to the U.S. Supreme Court, making Dumas France's fifth highest-ranking official. But that charmed life seemed on the verge of imploding last week when two French judges drove to his sumptuous home near Bordeaux and formally placed the 75-year-old Dumas under investigation for corruption in connection with a wide-ranging probe of France's Elf Aquitaine oil company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cherchez La Femme! | 5/11/1998 | See Source »

...contrast this domineering site there is the frilly British "BodyAware" web page, featuring the "Apres Noir" men's lingerie collection. This is a "just plain fun" assortment of "sumptuous panties, basques and stockings in beautiful colours, all designed and made just for men...from bank managers to builders." In the "Apres Noir" showroom, there is even a British to American English glossary to eliminate confusion when mail-ordering; apparently many men, when ordering a black lace merry-widow for that special occasion, do not realize that "gusset" and "crotch" mean the same thing. Despite the goofiness of it all, there...

Author: By Adam W. Preskill, | Title: WHAT IS NOIR? | 4/9/1998 | See Source »

Sewell, a Pre-Raphaelite hunk who also shines in the sumptuous new Dangerous Beauty, flashes a sullen magnetism here. But the playing is not the thing; the play of images is. In this city--part Moderne, part Magritte, part Manhattan collapsed onto itself--houses sprout like tropical flowers; office buildings magically morph in a technique that might be called Virtual Realty. You have to watch carefully, for this is not an ingratiating film. It drops you into a foreign landscape without guidebook or translator. It is as cool and distant as the planet the Strangers come from. But, Lord...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Short Takes: Dark City | 3/2/1998 | See Source »

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