Word: lavishness
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...after having earned a solid reputation as a recitalist in European cities, Ponti broke into recording in a characteristically lavish way. Vox Records wanted to record what seemed like the whole of the romantic piano literature and asked Ponti to be the performer. Since then he has made 25 LPs, including the complete piano music of Tchaikovsky, and is now working on Scriabin and Rachmaninoff. Largely as a result of this extensive background, he now has enough solo pieces in his head to turn out a six-hour nonstop recital. In addition, he can play any of 50 concertos...
...Despite the promise of Truong's moves around Hué, the military initiative still belonged to the canny North Vietnamese Defense Minister, General Vo Nguyen Giap. Last week, after a lull of ten days, Giap resumed the offensive. The new Communist thrust was pure Giap-methodically prepared, lavish with firepower, and at an unexpected point. The U.S. and South Vietnamese commands had been awaiting attacks on Kontum or Hué. Instead, Giap once more drove on An Loc, the shell-torn rubber town near the Cambodian border, 60 miles north of Saigon. As usual, Giap's troops fought...
...agents surprised four members of the Joseph Colombo family and the girl friend of one of them as they left their lavish horse-farm hangout 100 miles north of Manhattan. The prize catch was Alphonse ("Alley Boy") Persico, whose brother Carmine ("The Snake") still seems to be directing the Colombo war against the Gallos from his Atlanta Penitentiary cell...
...Metropolitan, La Scala, or Covent Garden. Often the results amount to just that-pretending. This year, however, campuses are positively blooming with new opera productions and new opera houses that New York, Milan and London could well be proud of. The architecture and stage facilities tend to be lavish, the repertory venturesome and the level of performances impressively high. In Connecticut next week, the University of Bridgeport will open a $5 million arts center with Neil Slater's Again, D.J., a rock-flavored updating of the Don Juan legend. Last week at Washington's Kennedy Center, a contingent...
...public relations men lavish Christmas gifts and expense-account lunches on journalists and politicians. Important Government contacts are provided with a private plane for business and pleasure junkets to sports events or weekend hideaways. Favored Government officials are sometimes surprised to be called on in foreign cities by ITT personnel, who will rustle up company-paid hotel accommodations and find a good restaurant. Though business is often unmentioned in all the fun and games, anyone taking advantage of them naturally becomes indebted, in various degrees...