Word: extravaganza
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...failed to meet a deadline on submitting plans for Christmas adornments to the City Manager's office, and therefore will not get the money appropriation Cambridge usually provides for such purposes. Harvard Square will have a meager array of evergreens while Central Square will have an extravaganza...
Strange as it may seem, the better parts of the current so-called extravaganza do not involve Mr. Autry. He breaks up the program nicely, coming on twice, in events number four and 11 (there are 14 altogether), and appearing just long enough to knock off a few songs, send his horse Champion and the up-and-coming Little Champion through their paces, and introduce a bunch of Pueblo, Indian dancers from New Mexico. Champion, a handsome animal, dances to the Army Air Corps song, "La Cucaracha," and "The Blue Danube" and bounds through a couple of hoops; Little Champion...
Somewhere, after the birth of our second child, there came that shadow of a doubt. We couldn't help questioning the sanity of the whole extravaganza. Has any set of parents the right to deprive a child of the privilege of planting a row of beans that will grow without irrigation? ... Of knowing a brook, and a field, and a hill intimately? Of picking fat, juicy blackberries...
...minutes later, hundreds of customers waiting outside poured in to see a first-run movie and an extravaganza featuring the latest Music Hall wonder: electrical fireworks for its Fourth of July show. To shoot the works, Senior Producer Leonidoff, Lighting Director Eugene Braun and their technicians had spent $50,000 and almost two years on a dozen giant stage panels with 24,000 multicolored electric bulbs, 300,000 feet of wiring and a maze of machinery...
...league of the newer music. But the real difference between the two picture is that in "Top Hat" the slick sophistication of Astaire and Rogers dominate the show; in the "Barkleys" it hardly survives the smothering effects of a sentimental vulgarity almost implicit in the term musical, "extravaganza...