Word: sumptuously
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...blowhard thing to say. For most of us seeking to enjoy life, the above assertion poses a head-scratching, fist-banging dilemma. Relationships are often good, but they are always complicated. Sex is fun but necessarily serious. In the approaching season as we delight in the mutual exposure of sumptuous muscle and flesh, these confusing facts of life still give us pause. Why are sex, difference, power and violence so intimately related...
Geoffrey Dobbs, a publisher based in Hong Kong, has converted two historic Galle mansions into hotels. The Sun House and the Dutch House (011-94-74-380-275; from $100) offer the island's most luxurious colonial accommodations. Like other early investors, Dobbs rents out sumptuous villas at Weligama and Tangalla, both within a short drive of Galle, for several hundred dollars a night. Deep-sea fishing is available, as are snorkeling and scuba diving around the southern-coast coral reefs. And Dobbs plans to build the island's first yacht club...
...while Sarandon's wicked witch is campy in a good way, Daniela Amavia, as Paul's power-drunk sister, lacks emotional range; whether in moral turmoil or rage, she looks as if she is ticked off that someone messed up her mochaccino order. The true stars are the sumptuous-for-TV special effects and the Matrix-esque combat scenes. It's hard to get too earnest about any drama that includes the battle cry "Send men to summon worms!" but the message--"When religion and politics ride in the same cart, the whirlwind follows"--does resonate. If only the whirlwind...
...WHERE'S THE MONEY? Some of it, of course, pays for the sumptuous Iraqi palaces that Saddam collects, 20 of them in the Baghdad area alone. But a Kuwaiti-financed investigation conducted after the Gulf War determined that Iraq had about $10 billion in bank accounts and other investments around the world, nearly all of it well hidden. One that remains in the open involves a long-held 8.4% share in Hachette, a French media group that publishes such well-known titles as Elle and Woman's Day. In response to questions about Iraq's stockholding, a Hachette owner...
According to Li Edelkoort, a trend watcher based in Paris who produces the sumptuous periodical Bloom ("the only trend magazine for flowers and plants"), there is currently a vogue for combining flowers of dissonant colors and textures. "Florists are crossing borders, mixing food and flowers, savage and romantic, dead wood and spring flowers, and eventually I think hardware and natural things," she says...