"She looks gorgeous, beginning to light up under a Wizard of Oz sky," gushed Bill Miller, a marine historian and adjunct curator at the South Street Seaport Museum, shouting into a cellphone as he monitored the departure of the Queen Elizabeth 2 from a small boat nearby.
It's just you and a dozen or so elderly fishermen, all taking in the gorgeous beginning of another California day.
But what mostly engages Toobin is the story itself in all its gorgeous improbability, beginning with the wonderfully brief and unexpected line, "This is Danny".
"And the fall foliage — isn't it gorgeous?" Ben McGrath began working at The New Yorker in 1999, and has been a staff writer since 2003.
"Gorgeous Girl" begins in a bookstore, with a customer who's looking for a study of female criminality by the sociologist Stanislas Prévine; the book, however, never came out — and the rest of the movie, in flashback, is the story of the sociologist's encounter with the "gorgeous girl" he ended up not writing about.
My husband joined us, and suddenly the four of us were talking and eating the same thing at the same time, and it was a lot like that "Ode to Joy" flash mob, when the lone, gorgeous cello begins playing in the empty square, only to be joined by the oboe, the violins, the brass (trumpets, trombones, French horns) until the full choir erupts with symphonic, ecstatic joy.
So my point was to do the beautiful, gorgeous score through, beginning to end, with as much as the metronome markings by Tchaikovsky as I could.
On a side note, the music used for this segment was the achingly gorgeous An Ending, a Beginning by Dustin O'Halloran, who is the man responsible for scoring the hit Amazon series Transparent.
A well-made, well-aged bourbon offers a gorgeous spectrum of flavors, beginning with a distinctive sweetness that can, depending on the distiller's aim, turn spicy and peppery with clear fruitiness, or mellow into a creamy caramel toffee with highlights of citrus.
As Fanny Brice, a Ziegfeld girl who knows her sense of humor is more impressive than her looks, Ms. Streisand sings "People" to her dream man, Nicky Arnstein (Omar Sharif), in a New York alley; talks back to Flo Ziegfeld (Walter Pidgeon); makes the entire Merrill and Styne score soar; and wears gorgeous Irene Sharaff costumes from beginning to end.
But then as I lay back and closed my eyes, nature's metronome, a surf that came and went in a gorgeous rhythm that began millions of years ago, took over.
