Word: extravaganzas
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...delegate droned on about a Soviet proposal for an all-nation summit conference on disarmament. The Yugoslav delegate offered his views in English, the Mongolian spoke in Russian, and in the galleries the rows of plastic earphones hummed simultaneously in French and Spanish, like disembodied voices in some Fellini extravaganza...
...Shah is sensititve to the criticism of his $100 million extravaganza. And well he might be! The indignation felt by the majority of th Iranian citizens is shared by the majority of us working here in the American and European business communities. Particularly by those of us who have delivered technology to the Iranian government on or ahead of schedule, and are still awaiting payment months and years later. To spend $100 million on a celebration when more than that amount is already owing for completed hard works is indeed indicative of that numbing Iranian characteristic: the instinctive preference...
...Roar of the Greasepaint. The Smell of the Crowd. the Anthony Newley-Leslie Bricisse extravaganza, has more scatological double-entendres than you could shake your...fist at. Vomiting gets a big laugh, as does a jock in drag. There is much belching, and some to-do over a lower-class character's use of obscenity (which, alas, is far from sufficiently feisty...
...gold thread. As for taste, even the Empress Farah said in an unguarded moment, "There have been a lot of mistakes and lapses" -one of which might have been the choice of pink roses and cigars for signs on rest-room doors. Many Iranians also resented that the extravaganza evolved from a festival of their national culture into a celebration of the monarchy. "This was the Shah's ego coming in," said a Western diplomat. "He is idealistic and patriotic, and he works 18 hours a day running this country all by himself. But he also has a heavy...
...time is ripe for another escalation of the war, not only because the American people have shown they will stand for it, but also because the military is becoming increasingly hard-pressed to draw its ten-year armed extravaganza to a successful conclusion. The U. S. has gained the upper hand in South Vietnam, but insurgent forces in Laos and Cambodia are still holding major areas of these countries and are seriously threatening to topple pro-American governments there. Extensive U. S. bombing has done its share of murder and other physical damage, but has not diminished the insurgents' strength...