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...firms have subjected the Stoughton Hall proctor to sumptuous meals, trans-continental flights and first class hotel accomodations in order to obtain his services...
...often smaller companies and different dancers.) The piece is set in 17th and 18th century French surroundings, as it often is. The scenery, by Nicholas Georgiadis, is pleasing if not quite light and airy enough. The costumes, also by Georgiadis and supervised by Anna Watkins, are breathtaking, not only sumptuous but redolent of a royal fantasy. The stage is filled with personages who could stroll the mirrored corridors of a palace. The Queen, for instance, wears a lyrical ivory silk dress, inspired by a Van Dyck portrait of Charles I's French wife, to her child's 16th birthday party...
After decades of neglect, the People' s Republic of China is trying to regain the glory of its ancient cuisine. As TIME Food Critic Mimi Sheraton discovered, Western travelers may encounter some disappointments, but with perseverance, sumptuous feasts and delicious exotica -- as well as good street food -- can be found. A guide to the country' s best restaurants...
University fellows and faculty gather and reside at these dwellings, where they are treated to intensive study combined with a sense of the highlife. Sumptuous home grown delicacies and brilliant vistas are among the fringe benefits of studying at such Harvard locales as the Italian estate, Villa I Tatti...
...name of tradition, a grand tradition that our staid 300-year-old University prizes to the tune of a $1 million investment in the building that houses the theater. A tradition it would seem of sumptuous costumes, sumptuous scenery and smutty puns...