Word: lavishness
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...July 3, 1970, at Nixon's San Clemente home. On the same date, committee sources said, Rebozo and Robert Abplanalp, another close presidential pal, were concluding a deal for the purchase of 2.9 acres of Nixon's San Clemente property, apparently to help the President finance his lavish estate. According to the same sources, the purchase price of that parcel of land was exactly $100,000. Rebozo denied that any of the Hughes money was used in the transaction, claiming that those funds lay idle without even collecting interest during his trusteeship...
This is a kind of literary marriage that is becoming increasingly popular: a longish essay on a suitably cultural subject wedded to lavish and largely relevant illustration. In the case of Balzac, the union is not exactly bliss. One might wish to trade some of the Paris street scenes for more text, but the subject would probably overwhelm any possible approach...
...upholstered Mussolini at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington. But that is not saying a great deal. The design, with its pleats of white birch, hanging plastic doughnuts and faired-in lights, is weirdly Art Deco: it could be the set for a lavish Buck Rogers movie from the '30s-"Desist, Zorka, or you will destroy the Intergalactic Confederacy...
...Chileans were neutral about the President. Although their lavish lifestyle was only marginally diminished, the rich−5% of the population controlling 20% of its resources−despised him for seizing the property from which their wealth had come. The middle class, squeezed by inflation and plagued with shortages, was bitter and unreconcilable. Hundreds, perhaps thousands of Chileans left the country. Others who remained kept one-way airline tickets at hand just in case...
While most of the country survived on short rations, the truckers seemed unusually well equipped for a lengthy holdout. Recently, TIME Correspondent Rudolph Rauch visited a group of truckers camped near Santiago who were enjoying a lavish communal meal of steak, vegetables, wine and empanadas (meat pies). "Where does the money for that come from?" he inquired. "From the CIA," the truckers answered laughingly. In Washington, the CIA denied the allegation...