Word: lavish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...embellished buildings, his shadowy ruins and his ornate details introduced a style of lavish grandeur that found its way to the noble homes of England and to the chãteaux of imperial France. Modern critics like to point out that the sliced-up spaces of his prisons are akin to cubist abstraction, but this seems a cold sort of evaluation for a man like Piranesi. He conceived visions of Rome, Horace Walpole said, "beyond what Rome boasted even in the meridian of its splendor. Savage as Salvator Rosa, fierce as Michelangelo and exuberant as Rubens, he has imagined scenes...
...Lifetime) at 26 with longtime collaborator George S. Kaufman, went on to turn out a long series of hits including The Man Who Came to Dinner and Lady in the Dark, out of remembered horror of his boyhood poverty disposed of his immense earnings in a manner so lavish that it was said to illustrate "what God would do if he had money," and finally cemented his claim to a place in theatrical legend with Act One, the disarmingly candid autobiography of a man who described his life as a mixture of "New York, Hollywood, insomnia, nervous indigestion...
...shelves of even the government stores, with the profits going into the pockets of the ring. Last year's illegal take: 3,200,000 rubles ($3,550,000). The ring's undoing was a typical capitalistic flaw: conspicuous consumption in the form of fancy cars and lavish dachas that finally alerted the cops...
...Comics have been switched from four-color to black and white, and tucked deep inside; Peanuts now runs second to front-page news. The short-lived tabloid "Lively Arts" section has been returned to full size; book reviews are once more printed as a separate section. Lively makeup and lavish use of pictures lighten the "Forum" section, which reviews the week's news. All this has yet to boost Sunday circulation, but the Trib's television ads make a virtue of leanness and gibe at the hefty Times in the same phrase: the Trib, they say, "is portable...
...Parrot (383 pp.; Golden Press; $25). The extraordinary book-by-book progress through the history of art, proposed by France's Minister of Culture André Malraux and begun this year in the superb volume Sumer: The Dawn of Art (TIME, June 2), is continued with an equally lavish book on Assyria. The grim, skilled art of the warrior peoples who fought in the Mesopotamian valleys-it includes magnificent lion hunts as well as gloomy strings of captives-has never been presented better. Familiar bas-reliefs are well done in black and white, and quite unfamiliar wall paintings...