Word: sumptuously
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...years ago, it seemed that the memories of the Fontainebleau's heyday - when the likes of Jackie Gleason, Frank Sinatra and Marlene Dietrich used to luxuriate among its marble columns - were about all the tired resort had left. But after a sumptuous $1 billion renovation, the Fontainebleau is making its comeback this weekend with a $5 million, celebrity-drenched celebration...
...Comcast Kingdom's new 56-story castle in Philadelphia's Center City is gilt-edged--a gleaming obelisk, from its flushless urinals to the sumptuous cafeteria named for the company's 88-year-old co-founder Ralph Roberts. "The tallest [building] between New York and Chicago," gushes the hometown Inquirer...
...include aromatics like lime or ginger and spice things up by adding copious amounts of jalapeno pepper. Canners are also experimenting with mixing subject and medium - pickled grapes anyone? Food writer Eugenia Bone, author of the upcoming cookbook Urban Preservation, even cans her own tuna, which she describes as "sumptuous," a word that can rarely be used to describe the chunk-white albacore you find on supermarket shelves...
Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire (Keira Knightley), was an 18th century scandal magnet for having both a swine and a swain--an icy, cheating husband (Ralph Fiennes) and a Whig politician lover (Dominic Cooper). This middling drama is less a history lesson than a tour of sumptuous real estate. The loveliest acreage is Knightley's alabaster back...
...group of 50 or so activists occupied the luxury villa of comic actor and Sarkozy intimate Christian Clavier. The protest, which sought to highlight the "colonization" of the island by wealthy French mainlanders, was clearly also designed to embarrass Sarkozy by targeting his film star buddy's sumptuous vacation abode. Protesters stayed about 90 minutes, just long enough to help themselves to some of the cellar's best bottles of wine...