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This "vibrant, sumptuous novel" (Kate Flatley, the Wall Street Journal ) is dripping with slaver by the time reviewers finish with it.
The art direction, costume design, and photography are top-notch: "It's the most gorgeous, sumptuous, painterly movie ever made about multiple decapitations" (Jeff Giles, Newsweek ). Johnny Depp, playing Ichabod Crane as an effete Manhattan detective sent to get to the bottom of a rash of beheadings, shines (or more accurately, is appropriately pallid).
Yet young and upwardly mobile islanders do go off in search of fortune, and the most successful return from Brazil, Venezuela, or South Africa to build sumptuous villas overlooking the Bay of Funchal.
Unrestrained ocean waves and salty sea spray have wrecked huge chunks of the Malecón, the sumptuous promenade and roadway that traces the edge of the sea.
The classical design, by Jacob van Campen gives some indication of the confidence of the city in the Golden Age — a statue of Atlas carrying the world on his shoulders sits astride the rear of the building, and in the sumptuous interior, only the best materials were used.