Adding to the general air of decadence are Ana Reeder, exuding heat as Buddy's voluptuous, immoral wife, and Rachel Brosnahan as a naively impudent, blackmailing starlet.

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While the wines' voluptuous texture matched the steak's richness, their minerality proved a bit of a jarring contrast, particularly in the case of the 2011 Chidaine Vouvray Les Argiles. (A minerally white just isn't as versatile as a minerally red.) But they both came admirably close to universal usefulness, and I was quite pleased with my food-and-wine-matching experiment, not to mention the advice of my experts.

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Two caravan loads of workers a miner's son, a Bob Dylan fan, a voluptuous gang mistress and her religious niece, two Chinese girls and a round-eyed African are being paid a pittance to collect strawberries for the smug middle classes who can afford to turn a blind eye to how their out-of-season fruit and veg actually gets to their white-linened tables.

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In One57's den, it took five tries before the green lacquer was dark enough, and the first upholsterer working on a voluptuous chair in the living room quit because of the job's difficulty.

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Result: the sort of rambling gentleman's lair one imagines Somerset Maugham nestled into while writing one of his voluptuous tales of local intrigue when this country was still known as Siam.

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The beer's brewers describe it as "a stunning blonde beer, full-bodied, with a voluptuous hop aroma".

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