Word: lavish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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INTERNATIONAL SHOWTIME (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). The Berlin Ice Revue glistens with European skating champions, skating comedians, acrobats and lavish production numbers...
...stage and screen. Last week the latest of its simplistic message plays, Through the Garden Wall, in which feuding neighbors learn love through M.R.A., was touring Germany, drawing enthusiasm from crowds and shudders from drama critics. Thousands still flock each summer to M.R.A.'s grand rallies at its lavish headquarters at Caux, Switzerland, and Mackinac Island, Michigan; in 1962 M.R.A. opened a third and equally handsome center at Odawara, Japan. Although M.R.A. officials are vague about money and membership figures, Britain's Peter Howard, Buchman's designated successor as the movement's leader, insists...
...open its 80th season, the Metropolitan Opera last week mounted a lavish new production of an old operatic warhorse, Lucia di Lammermoor. Designer Attilio Colonello created massive settings of gnarled, Sequoia-size trees and great Scottish castles. Costumes were dazzlingly extravagant. The male leads, swathed in layer upon layer of brocades, silks and laces, looked like overweight peacocks, but dashingly...
Quick Turn. Beirut's bankers prosper partly because they understand the unique needs and foibles of people for whom banking is a fresh experience. Many lavish spenders tell hoteliers and shopkeepers to send their bills directly to their banks, consider it an insult to have to carry credit cards to prove that they are good risks. The beauteous wife of Kuwait Millionaire Bader Almulla scorns checks, prefers to scribble notes on her calling cards ("Give this person $5,000"), which her banker is pleased to honor...
Mounting a lavish display of props, costumery and lighting effects, the Phoenix production camouflages the entire metaphysical tragedy and smothers the tensions in Marlowe's imagination, which was fearfully and longingly obsessed by the Christianity that his intelligence scoffed at and rejected. The cast gargles "Marlowe's mighty line" like polysyllabic mouthwash, except for James Ray's Mephistophilis, who, to give him his due, is devilishly good. By contrast, Lou Antonio in the title role is fumbling and playboyish. It is rather too bad that Faustus' pact with Satan should overlook mastery of the part...