Word: lavish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...formula is so successful that his own dreams have literally come true. He moves among jewel-like homes on Manhattan's Sutton Square, in Paris' Faubourg St.-Germain and the Riviera's St.-Jean-Cap-Ferrat. On both sides of the Atlantic he is a lavish and witty host to society and royalty. Socialites, politicians, ambassadors and industrialists come to admire his golden-eyed. part-Cherokee wife Rosita (the eighth best-dressed woman in the U.S.), his superb table and cellars, and his tastefully decorated walls (three dozen major works by Renoir, Matisse, Degas, Modigliani, Picasso, Goya...
Rarely has New York, home of showplace restaurants (if not of showplace food), seen anything quite like The Four Seasons. Such architects as Mies van der Rohe. Eero Saarinen and Philip Johnson helped to arrange its five lavish dining rooms (two public, three private). Fifteen trees of different and exotic species ranging up to 18 feet tall wave in the breeze, and $50,000 worth of foliage, from cheese plants to Ficus trees, crowd the Mies chairs and Johnson tables. The walls are covered with an original Jackson Pollock spatter painting called Blue Poles, three surrealistic tapestries by Joan...
...involved with his two comrades-in-arms in a sale of stolen goods. Later, the two older men quarrel, and Encolpius suggests they divide their belongings and separate. Ascyltus agrees-and draws his sword, threatening to divide the boy Giton. The most sustained satire of the volume describes a lavish dinner at the mansion of Trimalchio, wealthy and flatulent onetime slave. He presents each outrageous new dish-a roast sow. for instance, with a bellyful of live thrushes-displaying all the joy of a labor racketeer showing off the power ashtrays on his Cadillac. The guests snicker at Trimalchio...
...royal visit to Chicago lasted only 14 hours, but it was the most lavish 14 hours of pageantry in Chicago's history, and the warmest reception Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip have had so far on their North American tour...
...reason for her return is no secret: Josephine needs money. After World War II, after the excitement of helping the Resistance and the pocketful of citations (including the Legion of Honor), Josephine opened an orphanage for children of all races and creeds. But her lavish experiment in international race relations used up a fortune of 300 million francs ($600,000). Josephine decided to go back to work. The sentimentalists who come to cheer her chocolate arabesques are the financiers of her mission; they are also her accomplices in creating an illusion-that Paris and Josephine Baker have not really changed...