Word: lavishness
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With an intimate score only partially realized, the opera's impact, while considerable, remained more visual than musical. The production featured not only mechanical gimmicks, acrobats on wires, and lavish costumes, but a well-disciplined ballet company led by Niels Kehlett (of the Royal Danish Ballet) whose executions reflected both great strength and refinement...
Miss Wood has indicated she wants the same lavish treatment from the Lampoon editors that Ethel Merman received from the Hasty Pudding when she picked up the 1966 Woman of the Year Award. Her press agent has already called the Lampoon three times to make sure the festivities get planned
...chief weakness lies in the nationalized 53% of Austrian industry: steel, aluminum, oil, chemicals, leather, paper and lumber, plus the deficit-burdened state railway. Hobbled by price control, high taxes to finance lavish welfare programs and a chronic lack of capital, both nationalized and private industry have been loath to expand into new product lines or even to modernize plants rebuilt after World War II with $1 billion of Marshall Plan aid. On top of that, much of private industry is fragmented into pint-sized firms-25% employ no more than 20 persons. Predictably, they turn out goods in small...
...Hills living room, and who later acted out a cameo role before the late Senator Estes Kefauver's Senate crime committee, playing dumb about the business dealings of her many racketeer friends but boggling Senators with her full-grown curves and succinct explanation of just why men would lavish money on a hospitable girl from Bessemer, Ala.; apparently by her own hand (barbiturates); near Salzburg, Austria, where she fled with her ski-instructor husband, Hans Hauser, in 1951 to escape tax evasion charges...
...Lavish praise from teachers and considerable coolness among administrators is the fate of New York Teacher Bel Kaufman's amusing, poignant and pointed first novel, Up the Down Staircase, which dramatizes the first-year frustrations of a metropolitan high school teacher. Easily the most popular novel about U.S. public schools in history, the book has just passed a full year on the bestseller lists, sold 350,000 copies in hard cover and 1,500,000 in its first month in paperback. Warner Bros, has paid $400,000 for film rights and is now trying to pick an actress...