Word: lavishness
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Rarely has black comedy been more lavish in its laughter. As for Murdock's Bentley, it is a masterly portrait, initially of a puppy dog, later of a crushed fellow human whom no one could fail to cherish...
...Lavish Airports. The fledgling Union now would like nothing better than to be left alone to solve its internal problems-housing is scarce and education limited-and to enjoy the benefits of its oil money. Fujeira and Umm al Qaiwain are little more than fishing villages surrounded by desert, but Dubai and Abu Dhabi (each of whose capitals has the same name as the sheikdom) have lavish international airports...
...advertising and put more straight information into ads. Under its aggressive chairman, Lawyer Miles Kirkpatrick, the FTC last week hurled its latest bombshell. In an unprecedented action, it proposed that the nation's four largest cereal makers be broken up into smaller companies, partly on grounds that their lavish ad campaigns enabled them to keep out competitors and inflate prices. Kellogg, General Mills, General Foods and Quaker Oats were also accused by the agency of falsely advertising their products as body builders and aids to weight control. The case, which represents a new twist in antitrust enforcement, will almost...
Hughes had a habit of setting up starlets in lavish houses around Hollywood. Generally he slept with each only once, but continued to pay her rent thereafter. Once he was convinced he had contracted a venereal disease from a movie actress. He called Noah Dietrich in the Houston headquarters of Hughes Tool and ordered him to Los Angeles on "an emergency" errand. There, Dietrich was instructed to go to an empty apartment and pick up a laundry bag containing Hughes' clothing; he was to burn it in a vacant lot. Dietrich simply donated the clothes to charity...
...Radio Network took a swipe yesterday at television coverage of pro football, accusing the networks of presenting pro football "as a lavish form of entertainment" and of lacking "the journalistic enterprise, independence, and objectivity that marks the coverage of other events of such national scope and interest...