Word: sumptuously
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...food onstage is sumptuous and real, from the thimble-size beef tartare amuse-bouche to the spiced Moroccan lamb with couscous--pronounced, as the Martha Stewart-style hostess is careful to note, "coush-coush." The dinner guests are an array of gabby intellectuals loosely modeled on real-life intellectuals--a Christopher Hitchens-type British lefty, a Tom Clancy-like novelist with pro-war views, a Middle East expert who recalls the late Edward Said. They sit around a long oval table, with a chandelier listing overhead and helicopters whirring periodically, ominously, offstage. After heated debates on everything from Palestinian violence...
...promised highlight of the three-day bash was a Friday afternoon parade. But the closest thing to Rio's sumptuous Samba schools was a float from a local Brazilian restaurant, with two dusky dancers and a band. The rest of the dozen or so floats looked hastily cobbled together from tinfoil, and the bulk of the parade comprised local schoolchildren...
...Pamela Anderson and rock-rapper Kid Rock is dead. Anderson has been spotted gadding about without her engagement ring, and she is quoted in the current issue of PEOPLE as saying, "The word that best describes me now is 'free.'" What happened? Did Anderson grow jealous of Rock's sumptuous furs? Did she finally wake up one day and realize that she was way, way better looking than he was? Or did she simply conclude that no matter what she did, she could never fill the void in Rock's heart left by the late midget rapper Joe C.? Most...
...Real Madrid, bringing the club millions in merchandising revenue. Figo may bend it better than Beckham, but when it comes to swelling the bottom line, the Englishman scores every time. - With reporting by Michiko Toyama/Tokyo No, they don't serve waffles Famous as the home of the European Union, sumptuous chocolates and moules/frites, Belgium is staking a claim as a powerhouse of women's tennis. Two weeks ago, in the French Open women's singles final, Belgians Kim Clijsters and Justine Henin-Hardenne faced each other across the net, with Henin-Hardenne running out the winner...
...playwrights, the chance to see their new work given a sumptuous first staging is matched only by the ability to keep tinkering with it while shielded from the harsh lights of Broadway. "One of the things you find is that there's a low level of audience pretension," says Richard Greenberg, who has developed plays like Three Days of Rain and The Violet Hour at South Coast Repertory in California's Orange County. "There's a receptiveness about the audience. Their responses are pure. And that's especially good early on, when you're not so sure...