Roald Dahl was born 100 years ago today, and human beans everywhere are celebrating with scrumdiddlyumptious treats and splendiferous parties.
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Even if the weather's too cloudy tomorrow, you'll have a month's worth of mornings to gaze upon this splendiferous sight.
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I found the best of these museums in Zadonsk, down the road from the town's splendiferous blue-and-gold cathedral.
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There are mustaches, and then there's that splendiferous creation sitting atop Kenneth Branagh's lip in the first Murder on the Orient Express trailer.
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The trouble is that this exclusion drama is a retread of the original "Toy Story," in which Woody had to make way for the splendiferous Buzz.
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Based on the book written by Jane O'Connor and illustrated by Robin Preiss Glasser, "Fancy Nancy: Splendiferous Christmas" deals with Nancy's fancy expectations for the holiday season.
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Several of the highest-profile presidents, prime ministers, and other heads of state and government are staying home rather than making the trek, leaving this year feeling a little less splendiferous than normal.
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Splendiferous mountain vistas of greensward and cliffs scaffold my dreams, drawn from memories of sheep pastures in Sicily and Greece, rich with textured sedges or tinted canyons, then bombastic skyscrapers, or Matisse's Chapel.
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Near the garden is an extraordinary couture dress by Ms. Chiuri and Mr. Piccioli for Valentino; its metal-thread embroidery translates Cranach's Adam and Eve, and its flora and fauna, into splendiferous ornament.
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After a splendiferous turn as New York's most famous subway creature, Chepe, the raccoon that lived in a train station in Brooklyn, was recently captured by the police and released in Prospect Park.
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We're all for wearing what makes you happy, but if you ask us, a bold topper or splendiferous puffer go a long way in making getting dressed in the morning a little more of a mood-lifter.
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Besides "splendiferous", Dahl-inspired vocabulary in the new edition includes an updated entry for the word "gremlins", the meddlesome imps that sabotaged airplanes in Dahl's first children's book in 1943, and "human bean" – a humorous alteration or mispronunciation of human being.
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Just don't ask him to name his favorites — that would be like demanding that he choose between children — or, perhaps worse, imply that his splendiferous creations for the New York Botanical Garden prove that he's exalting orchids above all others.
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Splendiferous, meaning full of or abounding in splendor, joins yogalates, a fitness routine combining pilates exercises with the techniques of yoga, and moobs, unusually prominent breasts on a man, as new entries to the 150-year-old dictionary's collection of 600,000 words.
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Illumination Entertainment — the company that brought you the Minions and The Secret Life of Pets — has proper respect for Dr. Seuss purists, creating a splendiferous world full of visual gags and very cute creatures of the roly-poly Illumination sort while also peppering the town with creations that are recognizably Seussian.
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In a paltry cluster of sentences, his supposed doctor pronounced his health "astonishingly excellent," a diagnostic term heretofore absent from the medical literature, and that same sycophant — I mean doctor — demonstrated impressive retroactive omniscience, saying that he could "state unequivocally" that no American president had been in shape as splendiferous as Trump's.
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In New York City, leading stores like B. Altman & Company, Lord & Taylor, Henri Bendel, Splendiferous and Parisette placed orders. On June 16, 1964, Gernreich's topless swimsuit went on sale in New York City. The suit was priced at $24 each.
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Iliad 18.388ff :The earliest known reference to the Oceanid is a passage in the Iliad relating what happened to Hephaestus after his mother, Hera, threw him from Olympos. Thetis and Eurynome, the daughter of Oceanus, offered him refuge. He stayed with them for nine years in their cave at the edge of the ocean making splendiferous artifacts.
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The inaugural celebration, organized by Melvin D. Hildreth, lasted the full week from January 16–23.Jane Krieger, "Truman Inaugural to be Gala Show", New York Times, 12 December 1948, p. E7; accessed via ProQuest."Truman Calls For Simple, Inexpensive Inaugural", Washington Post, 30 November 1948, p. B1; accessed via ProQuest. The New York Times described it as "the most splendiferous since Franklin D. Roosevelt tried to lift the pall of gloom of 1933 with brave words proclaiming the New Deal".
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Its 18th compact disc was released in 2009 (see Discography). ELISION combines its Australian perspective with a long-term exploration of complex musical aesthetics, and in so doing has developed an international reputation for Australian new music and performance practice. Paul Griffiths, in Modern Music and After, writes of ELISION "… whose splendiferous range of colours … has produced a kind of sensuous complexity that may be uniquely Australian". In 2018 the ensemble toured internationally to Germany and Mexico, as well as performing in Australia in Melbourne, Brisbane, and Sydney.
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In 2012, Fancy Nancy the Musical was produced Off-Broadway by Vital Theatre Company. The musical is mainly based on Fancy Nancy and the Mermaid Ballet, with book and lyrics by Susan DiLallo and music and lyrics by Danny Abosch. The Original Off-Broadway Cast Recording of Fancy Nancy the Musical was released on Ghostlight Records in 2013. In 2014 Fancy Nancy: Splendiferous Christmas was produced Off-Broadway by Vital Theatre Company, Inc.. The musical, based on the book of the same title, has a book by Cara Lustik, music by Randy Klein and lyrics by Matthew Hardy.
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1953) has become a part of the musical life of Australia, > as has Richard Barrett (b. 1959) in works written for the Elision ensemble, > whose splendiferous range of colours (with a prominent tuned percussion > centre, including angklung, mandolin and guitar, as well as full stretches > of winds and strings) has produced a kind of sensuous complexity that may be > uniquely Australian." Griffiths, Paul: Modern Music and After, Oxford > University Press 1996, p.314 > "What we need is the regular chance to see the other greats of new > music—Frankfurt's Ensemble Modern, Paris's Ensemble Intercontemporain, > Klangforum Wien, Amsterdam's Ives Ensemble, Australia's ELISION Ensemble—to > experience other ways of interpreting the greats of the 20th and 21st > centuries, and to hear their unique performance practices at the cutting > edge.
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Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times described it as "antic and unexpected as well as homiletic, rife with subversive elements, wacky critters and some of the most beautiful landscapes ever seen in a computer animated film." Manohla Dargis of The New York Times felt the film "has a few things on its mind, but its tone is overwhelmingly playful, not hectoring." Joe Morgenstern of The Wall Street Journal opined that "As Pixar productions go, this one isn't a groundbreaker, but it's heartfelt and endearing, as well as visually splendiferous, and kids will love it for sure." "Clever and cloying by turns, it's a movie that always seems to be trying to evolve beyond its conventional trappings, and not succeeding as often as Pixar devotees have come to expect," wrote Justin Chang of Variety.
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Princess Taiping, the youngest daughter of Emperor Gaozong (r. 649-683) and Empress Wu, entered a Daoist convent in 670 to escape a requested marriage of state with the king of "barbarian" Turpan (Despeux 2000: 389). Yang Guifei (Most Honorable Consort Yang), the beloved concubine of Emperor Xuanzong, was married to Li Mao, the emperor's eighteenth son, who she left by becoming a Daoist nun in 745, which then allowed her to enter Xuanzong's imperial harem (Schafer 1978). A celebrated example of noble Daoist nuns was the elaborate 711 ordination ceremony of two imperial princesses, Xining (西寧) and Changlong (昌隆), the eighth and ninth daughters of Emperor Ruizong of Tang (r. 684-90) and sisters of Emperor Xuanzong (Despeux 2008: 172). The Daoist ritualist Zhang Wanfu (張萬福) described the princesses' splendiferous 14-day ordination rite, and noted the widespread criticism from ministers and officials about the high costs (Benn 1991:148-151).
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He is the composer of For My People, a song cycle featuring the poetry of American author Margaret Walker. His compositions, Facing It (based on the poetry of Yusef Komunyakaa) and Dear John, Dear Coltrane (based on the poetry of Michael Harper) premiered at the 2014 Furious Flower Poetry Conference featuring the combined James Madison University and Morgan State Chorales. His documentary film scores include: National Emmy Award winner Free To Dance (PBS Great Performances) and National Emmy Award winner Beyond Tara – The Extraordinary Life Of Hattie McDaniel (American Movie Classics) and Richard Wright – Black Boy (PBS/BBC production). His music can be heard at the Burial Ground Museum in lower Manhattan and at the Civil Rights Museum in Greensboro, NC. His musical theater works include composing music for Fancy Nancy ‘Splendiferous’ Christmas (based on the popular Fancy Nancy book series by Jane O'Connor, illustrated by Robin Preiss Glasser) at the Vital Musical Theatre, NYC 2014 – 2016, Music for Twinkle Tames A Dragon at the Vital Musical Theatre (based on the children's book series by Katharine Holabird), NYC 2016 – 2017.
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