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...little rule, and she broke her own little rule." With that quip, Nancy Reagan's press secretary Elaine Crispen tried to defuse the controversy that erupted last week after TIME reported that the First Lady had failed to disclose the borrowing of lavish designer outfits, a practice she had promised to stop six years ago. By week's end the question of whether borrowed outfits were hanging in the First Lady's closet had been eclipsed by the White House's gyrating attempts to explain away the affair...
Nancy Reagan's fondness for designer couture that she once contended was beyond her ability to buy has not abated. Mrs. Reagan has been borrowing costly dresses, matched outfits and jewelry from leading fashion houses on both coasts on a lavish scale. This despite her public promise in February 1982 that she would stop the practice, after her acceptance of such fancy items posed a political problem for the White House...
...morning you can lose yourself amid the chapels, bejeweled Buddhas and murals of the 60-acre Grand Palace, in the midst of which, atop a golden altar and dimly glowing in the dark, sits the Golden Buddha, the mysterious spiritual heart of the city. Everywhere Bangkok glitters with lavish monuments to its faith: the Marble Palace, the Golden Mount and the Golden Buddha, made of 5.5 tons of solid gold...
...never had that kind of profit margin--this group leads a very hand-to-mouth existence. The group collects very little revenue annually and expends only what is necessary to put together a season. The group is not capable of spending what they don't have on extravagant trips, lavish parties or extended weekend retreats. Many times I and several other members of the Bach Society, which cannot depend on a strong alumni foundation for support as some other performing organizations on campus, have been called upon to put up their own personal funds to carry the orchestra through...
...trace of bantering rancor shows through the Brits' geniality toward their upstart colonial rival. Perhaps because MOMI was spawned by the venerable British Film Institute, it seems a more comprehensive and congenial trip down the Yellow Brick Road of movie and TV history. It is certainly the more lavish in ambition and design: a superproduction on location under Waterloo Bridge...