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Clara Furse's ravishing--but hitherto unconquerable--London Stock Exchange is hardly sitting a corner crying heigh ho!
FORBES
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Baldly stated, this is true, but the movie, directed by Antoine Fuqua, has been made with ravishing skill.
NEWYORKER: Tears of the Sun
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Sitters who were ravishing in life look ravaged in paint, like burn victims.
ECONOMIST: Decades of portraits in the flesh
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But the effects of the devastating drought that is ravishing the U.S. were felt, with agricultural commodity prices causing concern in some districts.
FORBES: Stocks Flat After Beige Book And GDP As Markets Await Bernanke And Jackson Hole
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Filming on location with nonprofessional actors drawn from locals along the Ohio-West Virginia border, Steven Soderbergh revitalizes the eternal triangle with a low-key yet ravishing homespun neorealism.
NEWYORKER: Bubble
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Kristian Fredrikson's costumes put Ms Blanchett in ravishing, long turn-of-the-century gowns that make the most of her endless yards of torso, spidery arms and almost inhuman swan neck.
ECONOMIST: Captivating as Hedda Gabler
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Taken during Fashion Week, it featured her sandwiched between, by her own description and if memory serves me correctly, a ravishing blond transgender makeup artist and a similarly striking transgender model.
WSJ: Social-Media Face-Off
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Newly cleaned works are among the other highlights here, for example the spectacular Hans Memling "The Annunciation" (1465-75) and a ravishing Andrea del Sarto "The Holy Family With the Young Saint John the Baptist" (c. 1528 or 1529).
WSJ: The Met's European Reunion
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Far less modest are the adjacent Vatican Museums, an exhausting feast of art, and home to the world's most famous frescoes in the legendary Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo's astounding ceiling and wall frescoes that take the cake - picture terrified sinners and ravishing prophets bursting out in 3-D brilliance.
BBC: Lonely Planet's top 10 sights in Rome
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As if in homage to that lost work, Robbins operates on the mural principle, moving gaily and with high technical fluency from penniless actors (John Turturro and Emily Watson) to sincere socialites like Countess La Grange (Vanessa Redgrave) and a ravishing Fascist named Margherita Sarfatti (Susan Sarandon).
NEWYORKER: Cradle Will Rock