Word: lavishness
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...other Western capitals, Amsterdam has had its quota of student barricades, tear gas volleys and police baton charges. The youthful protesters, who used to be known as Provos (for provocateurs), rioted over almost everything from Crown Princess Beatrix's lavish wedding in 1966, when they tossed smoke bombs at the royal carriage, to the country's critical housing shortage. But new tactics were introduced early this year by the Kabouters, or Pixies, who decided that fun and games might be more effective than paving stones and smoke bombs...
...movies and crass, ubiquitous nudity have virtually finished burlesque. A few bawdy old burlesque houses are left, but where they once were a cornucopia of good, smutty fun, now they are mainly a refuge for the pitiful and lonely. Where Lily St. Cyr and Pepper Powell once performed with lavish eroticism, Abba E. Bond and her Gaza Strip and Terry and her Privates now perform grim, grotesque imitations...
...managed to raise $800,000 by 1967, partly by leading some donors to believe that they would receive invitations to dine at the White House. Most of the money was spent on the mansion. Dormann even coaxed Manhattan's celebrity restaurant, "21," into helping to equip a lavish kitchen, ostensibly for sating presidential appetites...
...laughter. They hurl it at the sky like a paintpot full of rainbows, and then make it chant a dirge for man's fate and man's follies that is as mournful as misty spring rain crying over the fallow earth. Rarely has a people paid the lavish compliment and taken the subtle revenge of turning its oppressor's speech into sorcery...
...force them to play commandante/captive games. The thoroughly bourgeois guests ("I like nice, well-cared for things," one says) choose to be submissive, though they promise each other that they will make a joint complaint. Philips adoptive father finds the group, admonishes his son, then leads everyone to his lavish outdoor banquet. One guest refuses what the others coo over as "an opportunity you don't get very often," and leaves; his departure irks both the ruler and Philip, and after some prodding the entire party sets off with gun and dog to bring him back...