Word: lavishes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...feature films. Its purely TV offerings have appeared more spottily in this country, but the sampling has been impressive. The Price, for example, is a suspense thriller that transcends its genre by an uncompromising, morally complex examination of the characters involved; 26 Bathrooms, a tongue-in-cheek tour of lavish and eccentric British lavatories, is the sort of loopy project one could never imagine on American TV. Though much of Channel 4's comedy does not travel well, Consuela, a 40-min. film directed by Stephen Frears (My Beautiful Laundrette), is a neat, funny parody of Hitchcock's Rebecca...
...designer's global profits have brought home a lavish life-style for his family. They divide their time among a sprawling apartment on Fifth Avenue overlooking Central Park; a house on Montego Bay in Jamaica; a working ranch with 1,500 head of cattle near Telluride, Colo.; and an oceanfront house at the tip of Long Island. The family commutes over the long hauls in a nine- passenger Hawker Siddeley jet and covers shorter distances in chartered helicopters. Lauren can be seen gliding through Manhattan in a limousine with the initials RL on the door, but he prefers to pilot...
Lauren's prime selling point is his image of patrician quality, which he polishes like the good silver. Even though most of his wares are manufactured by independent licensees, Lauren wants to maintain a distinct reputation for close attention to detail. He does so by lavishing time and care on his image- making advertisements, which spread the message of his design principles. As part of that studied approach, Lauren prefers lavish magazine spreads to television commercials, which he views as too fleeting to impart his message. "Ralph has some of the best advertising in the business because it sets...
...their odd and luscious details. His best buildings, like the Purkersdorf Sanatorium (1904-08), stick rather intently to a naked neoclassicism. His supposed apotheosis, the Palais Stoclet (1905-11), is handsome in elevation but ponderously classical in plan and, in all, fussy and overrich. Loos used lavish materials too, but with a redeeming simplicity. He was a hard-liner about tarting up facades: "Ornament equals crime," he wrote. And though Loos' polemical celebration of yeoman-like unoriginality was a bit disingenuous, his own architecture -- as in the controversial Goldman & Salatsch building -- was indeed relaxed, restrained, simple-seeming...
...more gifts we get, the more lavish a party we will be able to give for the undergraduates," said Coletta. If the committee is able to raise enough money, they may add an outdoor dance on Thursday to the weekend's schedule...