Word: sumptuously
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Surprisingly, the answer seems to be no. In America displays Sontag in a relaxed, pleasure-seeking mode, guiding her characters through a long travelogue in time, specifically the beginnings of the gilded age in the brave new world. Here are sumptuous theaters in Manhattan and hotels in San Francisco; a journey 1,900 feet down into a silver mine in Virginia City, Nev.; cameo appearances by such luminaries as Henry James and Edwin Booth...
...dream about discussing distributive justice with Professor of Government Michael J. Sandel over a sumptuous meal of chickwiches and cokes? Think you could talk Kenan Professor of Government Harvey "C minus" Mansfield Jr. '53 into an A if only he were under the spell of Annenberg's infamous Emerald Beef? Would your life be complete if, just once, you had the opportunity to say "excuse me Helen Vendler, would you please pass the salt...
Martha Moxley's mother Dorthy last saw her daughter alive on Halloween Eve 1975. Martha wore a blue parka and was skipping out the door of the sumptuous house the family had settled into just the year before, joining a group that included two across-the-lane neighbors, Thomas Skakel, 17, and his 15-year-old brother Michael. If the Moxleys were well off, the Skakels were Greenwich royalty. Rushton Skakel was chairman of Great Lakes Carbon, one of the world's largest privately held companies. In a union of money, power and more money, Skakel's sister Ethel...
...expectations. Though a cinematographic knock-out (kudos to director of photography Zhao Fei), this epic rendering fails to lend vibrancy to the story of the first emperor of China's rise to power. All too predictably, The Emperor and the Assassin falls prey to the temptation of presenting sumptuous costumes and cast-of-thousands battle scenes at the expense of an engaging plot and well-developed characters...