Word: lavishes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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PICTURE A moonlit patio, the rhythm of soft Jazz, and a lavish dinner ready to be enjoyed. You're about to sit down when your date gives your hand an extra squeeze and wonders aloud. Do you happen to have V.D., herpes or AIDS? This scenario was not lifted from Porky still but instead is the type of warning currently offered by the popular media. According to author Allan M.Brandt Harvard professor of History and Science. such representations simplistic view that the problem can be solved it individuals act more responsibly in their sexual conduct...
...chilly. "He constantly made digs about how the artificially high rate of the dollar was ruining the franc and the French economy," says Lawson. "I'd definitely say the high dollar has hindered our ! friendship." A Los Angeles sales-promotion executive, Vicki Carr, experienced some hostility in Britain about lavish American spending on luxuries that Britons can ill afford. Says she: "In the past I felt Londoners were very, very friendly. This year they were not that helpful, not that willing. I felt antagonism. We heard from people there that they resent Americans coming over and buying...
Yale has had a polo program for over 50 years, said Timothy T.P. Robbins, a freshman member of the Yale polo tem. According to Robbins, Yale provides polo facilities while the team sponsors lavish fund-raising events in places such as Madision Square Garden and Palm Beach...
...lavish Amadeus is not exactly Cinderella, it is an odd choice for so much Hollywood glory. It is long (2 hr. 38 min.), without the epic quality that often marks lengthy pictures. Its theme, moreover, is rarefied: God's inexplicable gift of genius to a lout (Mozart, as Shaffer conceives his character), and his assignment of mediocrity to someone who is eminently deserving (the devout Salieri). But the biggest obstacle is Mozart, whose very name intimidates many moviegoers. The picture has prospered anyway, grossing $34 million in the U.S. and Canada even before the awards...
...succeeds, it will be a tribute to its tortoise-like determination. From its start, the network has avoided the lavish spending that sank other members of TV's culture club, like CBS Cable. A&E produces only a few of its own shows, acquiring most of them at low cost from various suppliers. The largest chunk of its schedule consists of entertainment shows purchased through a special arrangement with the British Broadcasting Corp. These BBC programs run the gamut from classy mini-series (Jane Eyre) to music specials (An Evening with Andrew Lloyd Webber) and sitcoms (The Fainthearted Feminist with...