Word: lavish
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Whether Legs can survive its critical clobbering depends on what kind of experience theatergoers expect for $50. Genial and inoffensive at worst, occasionally energetic and raucously funny, always lavish and cheerful and eager to please, Legs is an amiable enough way to spend 2 1/2 hours. But it is altogether unmemorable. Its basic problems could not have been altered by a year of previews: the concept and the star. Legs traces the rise of a big-time gang leader in the machine-gun era of Al Capone. No matter how much the script sweetens and fictionalizes its depiction...
COURBET RECONSIDERED, Brooklyn Museum, New York City. Vast landscapes, lavish nudes and masterly portraits in an ambitious retrospective of paintings by the 19th century realist. Through...
COURBET RECONSIDERED, Brooklyn Museum, New York City. Vast landscapes, lavish nudes and masterly portraits in an ambitious retrospective of paintings by the 19th century realist. Through...
...purpose of the conspiracy, says the Government, was simply to "create and continue lavish and extravagant life-styles." Among the places the money went: $3.4 million in bonuses for Jim and Tammy, and $279,000 to buy silence from Jessica Hahn, with whom Jim had dallied one fateful day in a Florida hotel. The grand jury spent 16 months investigating the scandal and detailed 42 misdeeds...
Down at the end of lonely street, rush hour begins early and preparations are under way to handle the traffic. Gardeners spruce up the lavish Christmas decorations, guards sip coffee, and guides tug at their jackets as the first visitors ascend the curving drive. Ready, Teddy -- it's show time at Graceland, and Elvis Presley, who knew how to stage a stunner, would have loved every lucrative, down-home, star-spangled minute...