Word: impressively
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...room Fifth Avenue apartment, five-story East 70th Street town house and Palm Beach mansion, he lavishly entertained the people he wanted to impress...
...reproductions (very frequently in the modern styles which have been attacked in Russia as opposed to the essence of Socialist Realism), a letters-to-the-editor column, film reviews, and fine features on aspects of Polish life. It is the kind of magazine one can easily leave around to impress visitors, and if it were not called "Poland," it would probably be taken for an expensive Western European monthly. Consequently, Poland is the only one of the three magazines that does not alienate its audience sooner (China) or later (USSR), and also the only one that has any success...
...brindled bull with a big O branded on his left hip stood placidly while the long-legged cowpoke settled gingerly on his back. Benny Reynolds, professional rodeo's All-Around Champion, was frankly worried: "I couldn't believe that anything standing that gentle would buck enough to impress the judges." Then the gate swung open, and Reynolds learned better. Hoofs pounding, the old bull charged wildly into the arena, spun dizzily to his left, then suddenly reversed himself and spun to his right-and Cowboy Reynolds hit the dirt with a thump. "I looked up," recalls Reynolds...
...fled Israel as a refugee. Rounding up $4,000, he opened a currency exchange office in two dingy fourth-floor rooms in Beirut. With typical flourish, he named the operation "International Traders." Says he: "We had to have a name out of all proportion to our size to impress people...
...Budapest, one of the top Moscow restaurants, dance orchestras thump out the latest hits almost as fast as they come over the Voice of America's unjammed "Music U.S.A." broadcasts, which thousands of Russians record on tape. There are status-conscious college kids who try to impress compatriots by pretending they are tourists, usually Amerivantsy. Some even label themselves "local foreigners," call other baron (good guys) in their set by secret American names hybridized from Hollywood, e.g., Audrey Monroe, Charlee Taylor. A good many more-sober young Russian intellectuals scorn such fantasies. But they too look to the West...