Midas Touch, as it was later called, has a brilliant rose-gold color — every batch contains about a thousand dollars' worth of saffron — and a thick, honeyed, spicy flavor: a cross between beer, mead, and wine.
"Isn't it brilliant?" Mr. Rose clucks proudly, pointing to pictures of national championship chess teams whose members were coached, cajoled and coddled by the fund.
It is an ultimate showcase building, its vaults sheathed in pale ochre and aquamarine embossed tiles, its surfaces brilliant with roses the size of cabbages, its staircases shining with squat golden-glass balusters.
Clarins Joli Rouge Brilliant Shine in Rose Petal (£19, clarins.co.uk) sounds floral, but there's just enough hint of bubblegum to keep it lively.
Adjacent to the plaque that commemorates Hogan's brilliant one-iron, Rose launched a title clinching four-iron.
Arthur Laurents called her Rose "Brilliant, original, totally unlike any of the others".
Optimistically billed as the next Stoner, this 1967 reissue is in fact the better novel: Savage has constructed, against scenery "vast and hostile to individual hope", a rich and challenging psychodrama, based on brilliant characterisation – particularly of Rose, for whom living becomes "so narrow that she brooded nights on what to wear the next day", and the monstrous Phil.
The Dehli Durbar Tiara takes the form of a tall circlet of lyres and S-scrolls, linked by festoons of rose and brilliant-cut diamonds.
After its white, white wings I see the world more distinct, the wild roses more brilliant and pink as they spill over a fence.
