Lean, who seems in retrospect no less of an enigma than Lawrence, was born a hundred years ago, on March 25 , 1908 and "Lawrence," it is fair to assume, will endure as his memorial, although there are smaller, equally solid monuments of no less ravishing design.
Down among the technical awards, when most of the stars had moved on to drink champagne and pretend to eat, the British designer Jacqueline Durran took the Oscar for Achievement in Costume for her ravishing designs for Anna Karenina, starring Keira Knightley.
They had been choreographed by an iconoclastic young dancer named Mikhail Fokine, and set among ravishing designs by Leon Bakst and other artists.
Same for the stunning "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time," about a spectrum-y teen-ager trying to solve a dog crime, which won Best Play, as well as awards for its leading actor (Alex Sharp), director (Marianne Elliott), and ravishing scenic design (Bunny Christie and Finn Ross).
Way's writing has a lightness about it that works delightfully with Chloe Lamford's ravishing set design which depicts equally effectively the early cosy domesticity as it does the different seasons Gerda must travel through to find her childhood friend Cei who has gone off with the icy nightmare that is the Snow Queen.
The necklace itself is a ravishing bauble designed by the royal jewelers for the ill-fated neck of Marie Antoinette, and it becomes the prize in Jeanne's ruthless long con.
Immersed in Amadeo's kinetic visual concepts animated by a dance troupe he directed, The Lost Star induced gasps of admiration with costuming largely designed by the ravishing blonde artist herself.
The company's strength in these one-hour presentations is its commitment to beautifully staged, non-pandering introductions to the art form for children, with ravishing costumes (by Sylvia Taalsohn Nolan), elegant stage designs (by Gillian Bradshaw-Smith), and, on this occasion, live music performed on piano four-hands.
Anyone missing the point would discover it very quickly reading the menu, which is designed to ravish -- by any means necessary.
It's fair to say that The Grandmaster possesses nothing like the bounding, light-on-its-feet energy of Lee's film; Wong's film is much more a study of ideas and textures, designed to ravish the senses.
Rashly, she blows her live savings on a getaway English vacation with a difference: The resort she chooses, run by a fearsome witch played by Jane Seymour, is a Club Med for the frills-and-bonnets set, designed to ravish the senses and satisfy the literary fantasies of female Austen fans from all over, allowing the guests to dress the part.
