Word: lavishness
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Joel's best songs have the brash humor, the sad, sometimes lavish sentiment that still stirs faint echoes of the boys down on the corner, harmonizing on the Top 40. Raised in a solidly middle-class section of Hicksville, Long Island, Joel, 28, began piano lessons at four, but also boxed in school and hung out with the sort of hell raisers that would have made Virginia's mother double-lock the door. Here is how he tells it: "You got into junior high, you could go one of three ways. You could be a collegiate, a hitter...
This is not the sort of creativity one expects to find preoccupying an austere and sober artist like Ingmar Bergman. Yet it must be said that his liveliest attentions in The Serpent's Egg are lavished on the marvelous Berlin city block, circa 1923, that Producer Dino De Laurentiis provided him for this picture. The thing comes complete with a real working streetcar, which the director sets to clanging at every possible opportunity. When he is not busy with that, he is filling his street with crowds in all kinds of moods, showing it at all times...
...immediately and directly, especially in such countries as West Germany and Switzerland, where the greenback's decline against local currency has been severe. In Switzerland the franc has risen 25% against the dollar in the past year. A tourist couple may well spend $45 for a not particularly lavish dinner with a bottle of wine, v. $36 a year ago-even though the price of the meal in Swiss francs has not changed. In West Germany, where the inflation rate has been running at about 4%, Americans exchanging their dollars for deutsche mark have suffered a 34.5% loss...
...relations campaign. The same sense of detail that marks computerized scouting can be found in every phase of the Cowboy operation. The N.F.L.'s largest radio network, 133 stations, beams Cowboy games from Key West, Fla., to Thousand Oaks, Calif. A weekly newspaper published by the club has a lavish freebie list?including college trainers, so that prospects hanging around waiting for the whirlpool will have the Cowboys to read about...
...Emir of Kuwait; of a heart attack; in Kuwait. After succeeding his brother in 1965, he curbed oil production to conserve the enormous reserve that gives the Persian Gulf sheikdom the highest per capita gross national product in the world ($11,510 a year) and pays for its lavish welfare services. He was a strong supporter of Arab unity and a heavy financial backer of Egypt, Jordan and Syria...