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...much more too at sumptuous small hotels...
...palaces was not only aesthetically but also economically senseless. With the remarkable growth of the performing arts across the U.S., there has been a desperate scramble to raise funds for new theaters. Yet here were existing facilities with magnificent spaces, often excellent acoustics, huge stages and sumptuous interiors. Thus in one city after another, people have joined in crusades to save and refurbish the pleasuredomes of movieland...
With a fortune estimated at $100 million, Farouk Nasser, 50, can afford to live anywhere he wants in the world; in fact he has homes in London and San Francisco as well as a sumptuous permanent hotel suite in Beirut. One of the most successful of Palestinian businessmen, he heads the Modern Electronics Establishment, with headquarters in Saudi Arabia. Nasser, whose family founded Bir Zeit University, still dreams of returning to his birthplace. "I'll tell you why I want to go back to Palestine," he says. "I belong to this land. I was born there. I know...
...country squires doing what they do in these photographs, picnicking under the birches, hunting bear, playing whist or idling away time. Though many landowners were deeply in debt, as they complained in countless novels, a few of the noble Russian families possessed highly conspicuous wealth. A glimpse of the sumptuous Sheremetev Palace in St. Petersburg recalls the astonishing fact that before Russia's serfs were emancipated in 1861, the Sheremetev family owned more than 200,000 of them...
...Ballard's sumptuous images exist only to distract from his rather conventional failings of craftsmanship. The ruse does not succeed. Though the freckle-faced Reno and Mickey Rooney (as the horse's crafty old trainer) are well cast, then-scenes together are perfunctory and impersonal. Emotions are provided in stead by a busy and overbearing musical score. The film's story begins to move in fits and starts. Except for the inevitable big race, it is not advanced visually but by bald snatches of voice-over dialogue. No doubt children in the audience will have a fine...