Word: sumptuous
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...sumptuous villa with a private pool pretty much fits your definition of a luxury holiday, you clearly haven't lived - or been to the Banyan Tree Phuket. The five-star Thai resort offers 22 villas that come not with one pool each...
That is the work you get in "Robert Rauschenberg: Combines," a sumptuous, witty survey that continues through April 2 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City and then moves to Los Angeles, Paris and Stockholm. Combines was Rauschenberg's term for the big, hard-to-classify works?were they paintings? sculptures??that he began making around 1954 and focused on for the next 10 years. With every one of them, he blithely exploded all remaining assumptions about what a work of art was supposed to be by making it into a container for everything...
...paint compresses the landscape and creates a personal view of the city that evokes the mystical qualities of his religious works. The portraits in the second room were created as tools of state which depict images of ideal monarchs. Philip’s wife, Queen Margarita, wears a sumptuous dress in her portrait, painted with painstaking detail, while her face is mask-like. Gone are El Greco’s expressive brush strokes, replaced with a new artistic naturalism that focuses on the realistic representation of fabric folds and shadows.Velazquez’s first work in the exhibit...
...first half are unfortunately commingled with its worst tracks, including the aforementioned opener and the mirror images “Up!” and “Skin of the Night.” Both tracks rest on shaky, overly repetitive choruses that lack the sumptuous ease and glossy irresistibility that the rest of the album flaunts. The closing track, “Midnight Souls Still Remain,” is perhaps the album’s most problematic song (though arguably a success as a musical version of conspicuous consumption). Clocking in at 11 minutes and 11 seconds...
...menu is equally sumptuous, offering dishes such as melt-in-your-mouth steak tartare, rabbit wrapped in Parma ham with tea-soaked prunes, and loin of roe deer with an earthy black pudding. But be sure to save room for the desserts - from the chocolate torte to the bramble, sherry and mascarpone trifle, they make a wickedly decadent end to the meal...