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After his own sumptuous state dinner. President Kennedy put his finger adroitly on the mood of the city. Rising to make the traditional toast, he addressed himself to the Shah but opened his remarks with his eyes on the young Empress. "His Highness and I have a 'burden' that we carry in common," he said with a smile. "We both paid state visits to Paris last year, and from all accounts, we might as well have both stayed at home...
Rome Adventure (Warner) is a sumptuous brochure, photographed in color and mounted on widescreen, that gives millions of eager U.S. tourists a dozen reasons why they should see Italy first...
...face of it, Marienbad tells the story of a seduction-Resnais prefers to call it a "persuasion"-that transpires in what Robbe-Grillet calls "a grand hotel, a sort of international palace, immense, baroque, with a decor at once sumptuous and icy: a universe of columns, marbles, gilded panels, statues, servants in rigid attitudes; a clientele rich, polished, anonymous, unemployed. Seriously but without passion they play society's inevitable games-cards, dancing, vacant conversation, pistol-shooting. Inside this closed and stifling world, people and things alike seem caught in an enchantment.'' Among the enchanted inhabitants...
Wending his nomadic way home from the U.S. via Spain, Saudi Arabia's King Saud, 60, descended on Malaga in his Boeing 720 and took over the sumptuous Castillo Santa Catalina. His fortnight's rental (including a bed custom-made to his outsized dimensions) came to $10,000, but after two days, Saud restlessly roared off to Torremolinos. Although His Majesty had neglected to pay the bill, the Castillo's proprietors remained unruffled. Saud, it was understood, had arrived in Spain with a $340,000 bank draft and -for walking-around money-traveler's checks totaling...
...common man) who will never forget his humble beginnings. "I come from the poor. Let me reap for you the harvest of the poor. Let us break the chain of poverty. Let me lead you to prosperity!" he cried at his campaign whistle stops. "I have sat at the sumptuous tables of power, but I have not run away with the silverware...