Word: extravaganzas
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...people want it, and if we don't accede, they think we are not interested." In the most lavish display of opulence in Iranian memory, the Shah three years ago celebrated 2,500 years of Persian empire with a $100 million extravaganza at Persepolis, attended by Ethiopia's Emperor Haile Selassie, nine other Kings and 16 Presidents...
According to friends, Fanne formerly performed at the Silver Slipper, a sleazy Washington nightclub shoehorned between a pornographic bookstore and a pornographic theater. On the club's window are photos of scantily clad women in provocative poses and a sign promising AN EXTRAVAGANZA OF BEAUTIFUL, CURVACEOUS GIRLS. Inside, dancers shake to the heavy beat of music thundering from amplifiers and strip to their G strings, as B-girls cadge $2.75 drinks from male customers...
...congressional leadership. At 10:04 a.m., Ford and Rockefeller entered the room and clasped each other's waists as the President introduced his nominee, saying that "it was a tough call for a tough job." The low-key presentation was far different from the East Room extravaganza that Nixon staged for the announcement of Ford as his nominee for Vice President...
Need Help. The Havasupai have even more formidable champions. Senator Edward Kennedy urged his House colleagues to pass the amendment because the Havasupai "are not going to build a dam, or put up a factory, or launch a tourist extravaganza." Senator Barry Goldwater said the Sierra Club has become "a closed society, a self-centered, selfish group, who care for nothing but ideas which they themselves originate and which fit only their personal conceptions of the way of life everyone else should be compelled to live." Hubert Humphrey, another Senate supporter, said the amendment would not be environmentally disruptive because...
...Egypt. The sparse lines of Saudis along the streets contented themselves with clapping their hands rhythmically and waving banners as the President and the King, all but hidden in the closed Rolls-Royce, whispered by at 40 m.p.h. Saudi Arabia is not a populous nation, and staging an extravaganza is not the style of Faisal, a deeply conservative man. More important, U.S.-Saudi relations were going through a particularly delicate phase...