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This volume is apparently designed to feed the fantasies of split-level people who yearn to wake up one morning in a Palladian villa, a Roman palazzo or a great Georgian house in County Wicklow. The sumptuous interiors on display evoke the spacious days when every European princeling was building his own little Versailles and architects like Nash, Vanbrugh, Inigo Jones and Wyatt were adapting Italian magnificence for English country gentlemen. The modern eye can only goggle in awe at heroic staircases, ceilings bulging with putti, acres of marble floors reflecting miles of gilded plaster. Magnificence had become largely...
...vulpine criminal in a sumptuous penthouse pulls aside a window curtain to look down at the street. When he releases the curtain, he is abruptly in another apartment. He crosses the thickly carpeted living room to peer into a bedroom; when he turns back, the living room is empty and bare-floored...
...Lincoln convertible to Sihanouk's villa on the beach at the end of the street, where she and her party of four- Britain's Lord Harlech, New York Lawyer Michael Forrestal, Washington Journalist Charles Bartlett and his wife-joined Sihanouk's wife and daughter in a sumptuous lunch...
...Miss Christie around you, ear to ear, the same production team has again turned out a film conspicuous for its economy of movement and quick cuts. The punches are missing; instead an England that existed 100 years ago is visually celebrated in sharp, brilliant color and a few long, sumptuous pans...
...Lebanese banking has faltered. Many billionaire sheiks, whose deposits had helped to make Beirut the banking capital of the Middle East, moved their riches elsewhere. Tourist trade, the other principal prop of Lebanon's economy, all but vanished with the Middle East war. Now, in once bustling Beirut, sumptuous hotels are almost empty, restaurants deserted, harbor-import traffic slow, nightclubs closed, stores shuttered for lack of customers...