Word: lavish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Today, Korchnoi is the Lear of chess: pacing and grimacing, given to lavish tirades and, on occasion, paranoia. During a qualifying match with Spassky earlier this year, he accused his opponent of inducing hallucinations via hypnosis, and even suspected microwaves had been employed to destroy his concentration. In Baguio City last week he demanded the right to bring to the match a fountain pen-sized device designed to detect "X rays, gamma rays and other radiation...
Philip Minor is less lavish with music than Freedman, and less self-indulgent in overall pacing. Although Minor commendably retains more of the text, his show is still a good twenty minutes shorter than the Stratford one. He has not, unfortunately, assembled a cast that is as skilled in classical diction as Freedman's players...
...good conscience, I can't extend lavish praise to the manipulators of the multimillion dollar charade--John Y. Brown and Irving Levin. Their actions have done little more than reinforce the feeling that pro basketball--like other professional sports--is soaking in its own big-business broth...
...Southern Crescent is "lavish," it is by default only, mostly because of lowered standards of service in America and particularly on Amtrak. The Crescent is the typical 1960-era passenger train, and no better. It just lasted longer. In defense of the much maligned private railroad operation of passenger service, I wish Americans had supported good service when we had it, rather than rhapsodize now that it is gone...
...L.B.M.: Simple enough, simple enough. It'll be just like our old movies-as lavish as we can make it. as corny as they can take it and just as great as it always was. We'll take them full circle: call the casino MGM Grand Hotel and name the show Hello, Hollywood, Hello. Why not? Somebody has to revive Hollywood, even if they've got to go to Reno...