Word: sumptuously
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Scraps to Be Burned. Except for their one embarrassing admission, Dulles, Eden and Bidault held the offensive throughout the week. Their teamwork was so good that, in contrast to last week's daily huddles, they met only twice to mesh plans. Besides, they could only assume that the sumptuous "private" quarters provided for each delegation in the Soviet embassy would be as full of hidden wires as a television set. Around the conference tables in their quarters, beneath portraits of Lenin and Stalin, delegation members spoke not a word, communicated by scribbling notes on pads. Later each tore...
...envy. They maintain elegant town houses in London and comfortable country estates staffed with servants, drive Bentleys or have themselves driven in Rolls-Royces (price: up to $20,000), buy their cutaways in Savile Row ($140), dress their wives in Hartnell gowns ($550 each), bring their daughters out in sumptuous balls at the Dorchester during the London season ($3,000). Glossy magazines are stuffed with hunts in full cry, yachts in full sail, garden parties in full fig. How is it done on less than $16,800 a year...
...Oslo listeners hated to see her go, and many of them felt that her voice was as beautiful and sumptuous as ever. But Kirsten Flagstad had made up her mind. She finished with the last notes of one of her most famous roles, ending with Brünn-hilde's portentous words...
...adaptation and lyrics by Robert Wright & George Forrest) seems to have mistaken itself at times for a supercolossal film. The production cost $400,000, and thanks to Lemuel Ayres's eye for color and sense of medieval Bagdad, a great deal of Kismet could not be more satisfactorily sumptuous. But Kismet is too weighted down with finery to be at all fast on its feet, and even with Alfred Drake to pace it, most of it is just resplendently tedious...
...companion feature, The Passionate Sentry, should perhaps have top-billing on the program. Though not filmed in sumptuous color, the picture has Valerie Hobson and Peggy, Cummins to keep all eyes on the screen. An improbable story about a quadrangular love affair set in St. James' palace, it has some of the shies affair set in St. James' palace, it has some of the sophistication and wit typical of good English comedy. George Colt and Niger Patrick held up the male end of the cast...