Word: lavishness
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...have showered the musicians with champagne parties, shrimp boils at the yacht club, and enough pralines, hush puppies and fried pompano to fuel Her Majesty's navy. Last week, for those musicians who could tear themselves away from golf, water-skiing and deep-sea fishing, there was a lavish beach party with barbecued chicken, baked beans and 60 gallons of sangría, a bubbly mixture of wine, orange juice and club soda, which was ladled out of a plastic garbage...
...stepping high in snakeskin shoes, a diamond tiepin and purple tie, Hines hit the road-just in time to witness the demise of the big-band era. The years thereafter were largely one continuous round of playing with various combos. He dyed his greying temples 'black, staged lavish press parties to promote the "New Fatha Hines." Nothing worked, and eventually he resorted to playing Dixieland in San Francisco clubs-endlessly searching for "something that people wanted to hear...
...office, for the Bung had remained a hero to millions of Indonesians. It was Sukarno, after all, who proclaimed independence in 1945, and Sukarno again who made Indonesia a name among the nonaligned nations by sponsoring the Bandung Conference in 1955. His pretty girl friends, fancy uniforms, lavish palaces and expensive monuments are a salve for a people whose colonial masters called them "ignorant, dirty natives...
...Keyes literary style, which is as smooth as clabber, is to hook connective tissue to a lavish collection of cliches. No doubt the hundreds that occur in her book have been worn even smoother by constant use. "Unseemly behavior," "ulterior motive," "the bond of affection," "spread like wildfire," "fraught with danger," "outraged dignity," "food for thought," "kicking over the traces," "nefarious scheme," "accepted with alacrity," "wild disorders," "the handwriting on the wall," "a figment of imagination," "travel-stained "garments," "the unvarnished truth," "failing fast," "a kind and devoted husband," "their fury knew no bounds," "by hook or crook"-they...
...reform-minded ruler determined to put Saudi Arabia's oil riches to work for the people. No sooner was he in power than he ordered free education and medical service for all Saudis, stepped up oil production and trimmed the country's budget. Today Saud's lavish, pink-walled Nasiriyah Palace in Riyadh-with an air-conditioning system said to be second in size only to the Pentagon's-lies deserted...