Word: lavishness
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...truest friend." It is not that boys are not fond of horses. The last thing Victor Esch Jr., 10, does before he goes to bed in Potomac, Md., is shine a spotlight out of the window to be sure his pony Misty is all right. But girls are more lavish with their affection. "He's my best, truest friend," says Mary Jay Harrigan, 8, who spends her afternoons after school in Colebrook, N.H., riding her 21-year-old chestnut gelding Ahab the Arab. When Sue Ann Meyer returned home from camp to her parents in Lincoln, Mass., she barely...
This musical is a cross between a Dionysian revel and an old-fashioned revival meeting. The religion that Hair preaches, and often screeches, is flower power, pot and protest. Its music is pop-rock, and its dialogue is mostly graffiti. Hair is lavish in dispraise of all things American, except presumably liberty. The play itself borders on license by presenting a scene in which half a dozen members of the cast, male and female, face the audience in the nude. This tableau is such a dimly lit still life that it will leave most playgoers open-mouthed with yawns...
...Austria, where they lavish more money and concern on opera than on foreign affairs, the directorship of the venerable Vienna State Opera is a post of sacred national trust. Its incumbent inherits Vienna's 300-year operatic tradition, directing one of the longest and best-quality seasons in the world. In return, he may receive up to $30,000 a year, plus a liberal expense account, an apartment, a chauffeur-driven car and the run of Vienna's famed Sacher Hotel-free room, meals and entertaining. With the job vacant since the death four months ago of Director...
Updike's charm is often coquettish, flirtatious, a just sufficient enticement to continue reading. But it is also often a lavish measure of light, a stunning gift. It reminds us that prose writing can be an ecstatic art. It opens our eyes to the world. It returns the world to us, after we have read him, more our own than it was before...
...They devised the idea for the show last year, but its viability wasn't certain until it was given the sure kiss of success: all the Hollywood hotshots said it couldn't be done. A full hour of nothing but comedy? No dancers? No guest crooners? No lavish production numbers? Impossible. So, when the show debuted six weeks ago during the deep doldrums of TV's midseason, it came on like a fanfare at a funeral. Ever since, like a giggle building to a guffaw, it has gained momentum until it now threatens to knock...