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...Louis Comfort Tiffany threw a party for himself to celebrate his 68th birthday. "When the savage searches for the gems from the earth or the pearls from the sea to decorate his person," Tiffany told several hundred guests at his lavish studio, "he becomes an artist in embryo." That idea informs $ nearly all Tiffany's prodigious output. As decorator, craftsman and glassmaker, he fretted over his place in history. Was he embryo or master? Artisan or artist...
When you're fiftysomething, you're entitled to a little extravagance. But few birthday parties could match the spectacle staged by Iraqi President Saddam Hussein for his 53rd last month. Saddam invited Cabinet members, prominent government officials and diplomats to his home village of Tikrit for lavish festivities that included a two-hour parade and banners proclaiming YOUR CANDLES, SADDAM, ARE THE TORCHES FOR ALL THE ARABS...
...travel magazine and a research journal. The strain on cash flow triggered cost cutting and staff reductions, leaving Garrett's writers and explorers with less luxuriant expense accounts than usual and strict project budgets to meet. Grosvenor favored shorter stories, focusing on the U.S., in place of the lavish globe-roaming epics of yore...
...other aspect of the savings differential isn't our lavish personal spending but what we've spent on defense: 5% or 6% of the U.S. gross national product each year, vs. 1% or so for the Japanese (and perhaps 15% for the Soviets). Is it coincidence that the Japanese economy is doing so well and that the Soviet economy has collapsed...
...Sandinistas raided the government's 40 percent of the nation's assets and high tax revenues to finance its lavish campaign. In contrast, UNO could only draw upon meager funds, as even once-wealthy families had been impoverished by inflation that peaked at 10,000 percent...