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...eight Americans were greeted at Santo Domingo's Las Americas Airport by a smiling host who guided them effortlessly through customs and on to the posh El Embajador Hotel for cocktails and a sumptuous dinner. Next morning the visitors were shuttled to the country's thriving new tourist attraction: the Palace of Justice. By noontime they were divorced from their spouses back home. The cost: about $500 in legal expenses, plus air fare and the price of an overnight stay...
...been great changes in lotus land. From his 30-room mansion, New Arrival Hefner stages Sunday barbecues replete with Playboy bunnies, while Hollywood oldtimers seem to be making do with hot dogs and sangria. Some of the established hostesses, Roz Russell, Denise Minnelli, Mrs. Gregory Peck, still stage conspicuously sumptuous affairs now and again. But in the new Hollywood such lavishness seems almost ostentatiously out of date...
...Also on hand was Huang Hua, one of Peking's top experts on U.S. affairs, whose move to Canada as Ambassador to Ottawa had been delayed because of the Kissinger trip. The group drove to a handsome villa on a small lake outside Peking and sat down to a sumptuous Chinese lunch. While the rest of the U.S. delegation, adjusting to their environment, ate with chopsticks, Kissinger stuck to knife and fork. At 4 in the afternoon, Chou En-lai arrived and serious talks got under way. Chou and Kissinger sat on opposite sides of a table covered with green...
...scenario is fairly clear-cut; it is the mise en scéne that is so complex. Cinematographer David Watkin (Catch-22, The Charge of the Light Brigade) lights the sumptuous sets to give a consistent aura of hallucination. Russell lashes his actors into a histrionic verve that is reminiscent in equal parts of the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Living Theater and Bedlam. The supporting cast (Dudley Sutton and Michael Gothard most prominent among them) act like a chorus and look like creatures from a Bosch triptych. Oliver Reed is suitably forceful as Grandier; it is indeed his best performance...
...practices her father's religion during business hours only. Whereas Carlo was a lifetime lira-pincher who often rode the trains third class and packed his own lunch, Anna lives the life of an empress after work. She maintains an 11th century palace, a hunting lodge and a sumptuous apartment, all crammed with priceless paintings. She keeps her figure trim, dresses elegantly, and entertains salons full of jet-setters and visiting royalty...