Word: lavishness
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...each stop in the tour, the President used basically the same technique: a prepared speech putting forward one of his major campaign themes (responsibility in government, the capture of the Republican Party by extremists); a lavish dose of praise for the particular state he was visiting; and a standard ending about "the faces I saw on my way into town from the airport this afternoon" and "the problems I must consider when I return to my big desk in that lonely room in the White House tonight...
...show business sector has been hardest hit. Mike Todd Jr.'s America Be Seated closed shortly after the fair opened. Another notable dropout was Wonder World, a glossy musical-extravaganza with a cast of 250 that at times was bigger than its audiences. The Texas pavilion's lavish To Broadway with Love and Dick Button's Ice-Travaganza also folded. The Teatro Espanol's guitarists and flamenco dancers would be a hit in Manhattan; at the fair, business is so slow that the Spanish pavilion has slashed admission from $3 to a ridiculously...
...living memory had a French man received in death so lavish an outpouring of homage-a sobering reminder that France's shrunken Communist Party, with 240,000 card-carrying members, is still the nation's biggest. Ever since a Russian jet had flown his body back from the Black Sea, where he died of a heart attack on a Soviet ship, thousands of mourners had walked past Thorez' casket as he lay in state first in the hôtel de ville at Ivry, which he had represented in the National Assembly...
...married son) in a Frenchlike chateau in Houston, owns three cattle ranches and a private zoo of lions, zebras, gazelles and camels. A man who hardly hesitates before he plows $120 million into a Colombian oilfield, he is also known in hotels and restaurants on four continents as a lavish spender and tipper...
Significant Decisions. Motorola has managed its mix of products by internal growth rather than by acquisition, financing expansion largely from corporate funds; last year it spent a lavish $48 million on research and capital in vestment. The company also makes a practice of promoting from within...