Word: lavishly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hollywood's Lifeboat (1944). Yet even to the flops she brought the kind of fierce power and impish delight that captivated friend and foe alike. Tennessee Williams called her a cross between a tiger and a moth, and her performance offstage was the true measure of the actress. Lavish beyond redemption, garrulous beyond recall, Tallulah chain-smoked, talked and caroused like a longshoreman. She was known to romp around her apartment in the nude drinking planter's punch-and sometimes greeted friends at the door in the same state of undress. Tallulah refused to remember anyone...
...vision is unsettling and thought-provoking. Its still difficult to accept wholly but it is clear to me at least that self-searching along these lines will be necessary, a steeling of the mind to reject any lavish but corrupt opportunities that may beckon in favor of a simpler and more frugal, but more satisfying, life...
Inouye's peroration was a lavish tribute to the President that could sway the whole convention. McCarthy's campaign manager, Stephen Mitchell, a former Democratic national chairman, helped feed speculation about a Johnson draft when he declared: "It may be that Mr. Humphrey feels a strong presence behind him, a man on a white horse, a certain large ranch owner from Texas." Delegates from both Tennessee and Texas fanned the rumors by urging that Johnson be drafted, particularly in light of Czechoslovakia...
...been taught for two decades to regard as little better than a Western spy." This time, being from the West was something of an advantage, and Forbath was happy to be offered not only tea by the Russians but the clear, potent and ever-present slivovice that Czechoslovaks lavish on their guests...
Pleuthner himself is no less eccentric than his home. Wheezing and bent with age, he is nonetheless chipper and determined as a bright sparrow. A practicing architect since 1906, he has some 50 lavish country residences to his credit, including his own beleaguered castle. Lately he has returned to his second vocation of artist (he exhibited in the great 1913 Armory Show in New York). Although the fire in 1963 forced him to move to a rented apartment, the house remains his studio, without running water or electricity...