Word: lavishness
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...single cobalt radiation source, which will cost Standard more than $17,000, is not powerful enough for a full-scale production setup. If the company decides to build an atomic oil refinery, it is thinking of using a nuclear reactor as a lavish source of radiation. Its scientists hope that by that time reactors will be safe enough to trust in a populated area...
...whole, The Golden Coach fails because it spends too much time concentrating on Miss Magnani and not enough on the plot and the rest of the cast, most of whom are excellent. But as a background for his star, M. Renoir has also created a lavish spectacle of costumes, sets, and fine color photography. These elements are expertly combined to produce delightful splashes of color. There are some people, however, who feel that they can get all the color they want by watching a sunset, and who look for something else on a movie screen...
...amid the show's lavish hurly-burly and piling one thing on top of another. Jo Mielziner's sets count for less than his brilliant methods of shifting them. Tamiris has devised some colorful choreography, but it is often so unlooked-for and unneeded as to seem less like a dance than a kind of dividend. Fanny is built like Actor Slezak without being nearly so light on its feet...
Beauty and the Devil does, however, occasionally stumble. Toward the end, for example, the light vein is momentarily broken by Faust's sudden philosophic despair. ("The poorest beggar at least owns his own soul," he complains to his lover.) Nevertheless, the picture, enlivened by Leon Barsacq's lavish sets, is a distinct triumph of French joie de vivre over the sombre morality of previous Faust legends...
...other undergraduate divisions, architecture, hotel administration--with a lavish Statler hotel on campus in which to practice--and the state-supported Home Economics and Labor and Industrial Relations schools, all have relatively small student bodies...