Word: sumptuously
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...sculpture, mosaics, even locks and bolts. Presiding over all was Charles Le Brun, who gave the age its style. As first painter to the King, Le Brun decorated most of Louis' palaces, planned Versailles' garden statues and, above all, saw through to completion some of the most sumptuous tapestries ever created by Gobelins...
...newly conjoined Nugents, relatives, friends and selected luminaries over 3.6 miles of public roads to the White House. Greeted by more reporters and television cameras, serenaded by the U.S. Marine Corps Band and Peter Duchin's dance orchestra, the company will sip domestic champagne, nibble at a sumptuous buffet, and attack a 300-lb., 8-ft. cake before Luci, Pat and her ever-present Secret Service escort go off on a honeymoon à trois...
Director Alberto Lattuada's actors are a gallery of perfectly chosen faces leering ever so faintly from a 16th century fresco. Dressed and undressed in sumptuous Renaissance style, or hatching intrigues among the cobblestones of two ancient Umbrian villages where the action was filmed, they look comfortably removed to another time. With a lusty feel for the broad, vulgar humor of the period, Lattuada adds a delectable scene at the public baths, where gentlemen voyeurs and unsuspecting ladies are suddenly desegregated by a collapsing wall. Making a new movie from an old play can easily bring both to ruin...
HARPER. As a private eye focused on a kidnaping case, Paul Newman revives the Bogart tradition in lively style, with seedy-to-sumptuous local color supplied by Julie Harris, Arthur Hill and Lauren Bacall...
Otherwise, Russian Adventure ignores the seamy side of life east of Berlin's Wall. The pace is "strong, steady and fast" in Moscow, where citizens enjoy sumptuous subways and cold winters. "But Russians say it's a dry cold," Crosby adds informatively. So much for insight into the Soviet character. While a multiple sound track booms musical punctuation, the movie visits several dazzling acts at the Moscow Circus, peeks at the shipboard dissection of a giant whale, lingers over the familiar, gravity-defying virtuosity of the Moiseyev dancers and the Bolshoi Ballet...