Word: scenically
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...tour can go pretty fast these days, but this is probably the first time the whole continent ever rushed by in such a hurry that it could not be seen with the naked eye. France, Germany, Belgium, the Riviera. Italy-it's all there. One by one the scenic glories and the cultural wonders flash like giant postcards, lustrous with color by De Luxe, upon the CinemaScope screen...
...through the film, as the moviegoer watches, there travels a troubling little ecstasy of recognition. The costumes, and even many of the scenic compositions, are copies from old masterpieces by Lippo Lippi, Pisanello, Carpaccio, Lorenzo. As the orchestra tunes up for the Capulets' ball, five little boys step up to sing, and suddenly are grouped, in lovely archaic rhythm, as a choir of cherubs in Raphael's style. Juliet, in the scene where she first sees Romeo, is dressed like Botticelli's Flora, and the lines of her head and neck might be a tracing from Veneziano...
...main campus at Ithaca, perched "several hundred feet above the southern extremity of Cayuga Lake," as one official publication anatomically describes it, has long had the reputation of being one of the most scenic in the United States. On esthetic grounds alone, Cornell students show pardonable pride when they sing of their "noble alma mater, Glorious to view...
Stanley J. Aronoff and George S. Abrams were peaceably studying in scenic Lexington yesterday morning after removing shirts and convertible car top. Two heavily-dressed police officers quietly drove up, however, and charged the bare-chested students with illegal parking and inadequate clothing...
Despite all this scenic Smorgasbord there are only two ways in which you can distinguish Prince Valiant from more familar sagebrush sages. First of all, the savages are Nordies (of sorts) and sport horns in lieu of feathers. In fact, there are horns everywhere. On helmets, as drinking cups and bugles--horns are on everything except the script, which wears a beard. The second distinguishing detail is the frank presentation of propaganda for the Bolivian tin interests. What isn't made of horn in the picture is sure to be tin, including swords, shields, prison bars and armor...