Word: extravaganza
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...opening of the trial of the Chicago Eight, a courtroom extravaganza that may shrink the limits of political dissent...
BUTCH CASSIDY and the Sundance Kid is just barely a Western. It wavers between a New Yorker cartoon version of the Old West and an anti-hero extravaganza for a high school audience. Like a Charlie Chaplin movie, it serves up heaps of comedy and mayhem. The result is mostly successful. Director George Roy Hill has taken a tired theme (the outlaw as folk hero) and maintained it on a very high level of slapstick...
...Atlanta, nearly 1,000 Coke bottlers will get the first look at the new look in a sound-and-light show that is billed as the most impressive indoor event in that city since the 1939 premiere of Gone With the Wind. To the casual outsider, however, the expensive extravaganza may have all the impact of a flourish of trumpets and a roll of drums-followed by two Coke bottles clinking weakly together...
Once elected, the ten-man committee plans a relatively elaborate three day blast in April comparable to the upperclass Spring Week-end. Although the committee has found it increasingly hard to entice freshmen into attending this extravaganza, in 1967 the event, which included "The Temptations." was executed without financial strain. But the last two years. Jubilee has flopped...
...whirred to a stop, the chopper door popped open, and out onto the brand-new White House West helipad stepped the whole Johnson family: Lyndon and Lady Bird, Pat and Luci Nugent, Major Charles Robb and Lynda. They had come all the way from Texas for the latest extravaganza by Richard Nixon Productions Inc., a 61st birthday moveable feast for L.B.J. that started in San Clemente and ended in the new Redwood National Park, 800 miles farther up the California coast. It was an unlikely summit meeting between two old political enemies and, as it turned out before the long...