Word: lavishness
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...formula is so successful that his own dreams have literally come true. He moves among jewel-like homes on Manhattan's Sutton Square, in Paris' Faubourg St.-Germain and the Riviera's St.-Jean-Cap-Ferrat. On both sides of the Atlantic he is a lavish and witty host to society and royalty. Socialites, politicians, ambassadors and industrialists come to admire his golden-eyed. part-Cherokee wife Rosita (the eighth best-dressed woman in the U.S.), his superb table and cellars, and his tastefully decorated walls (three dozen major works by Renoir, Matisse, Degas, Modigliani, Picasso, Goya...
...royal visit to Chicago lasted only 14 hours, but it was the most lavish 14 hours of pageantry in Chicago's history, and the warmest reception Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip have had so far on their North American tour...
...reason for her return is no secret: Josephine needs money. After World War II, after the excitement of helping the Resistance and the pocketful of citations (including the Legion of Honor), Josephine opened an orphanage for children of all races and creeds. But her lavish experiment in international race relations used up a fortune of 300 million francs ($600,000). Josephine decided to go back to work. The sentimentalists who come to cheer her chocolate arabesques are the financiers of her mission; they are also her accomplices in creating an illusion-that Paris and Josephine Baker have not really changed...
...world. Two years ago the only known copy, scrawled on papyrus possibly by a schoolmaster in the 3rd century A.D., turned up mysteriously in the hands of a Greek antique dealer in Cairo. The finder: Martin Bodmer, a millionaire Swiss banker and bibliophile, who whisked it off to his lavish private library in Geneva...
...assets total some $2 billion, and receipts run to $500 million annually, but exactly what it spends and earns is a mystery even to the government owners; its balance sheet is, by Mattei custom, uninformative. With it he can buy political influence-he is a lavish contributor to the Christian Democratic Party-but Mattei, independently wealthy, lives almost austerely in a Rome hotel, turns over his salary to charity. At 53, his main interest outside of ENI is trout fishing. "I am going to retire at 60," he says, and critics ruefully acknowledge he is so well entrenched that there...