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...staff unrolled a long crimson carpet down to Hollywood Boulevard, then a dusty lane, where lines of limousines deposited their elegant passengers. As the silent movie era gave way to the talkies, and Hollywood's business and glamour grew proportionately, the residences of its stars became more lavish too. There was the Hollywood Hotel, where Rudolph Valentino married Actress Jean Acker and spent his honeymoon. The Garden of Allah, which opened with an 18-hour party, was a haven for writers including F. Scott Fitzgerald, Robert Benchley and Dorothy Parker...
...because they are trying to keep up appearances while they fight the disastrous consequences of the American addiction to buy-now-pay-later. "Nothing seemed extravagant," says Steve. "We kept thinking, 'We're successful people, we make a lot of money, and we aren't being lavish. Why are we in trouble...
Spielberg has formidable competition for the attention of moviegoers this summer. The producers of Annie have engineered a powerful media blitz to herald their lavish if lead-souled musical. Tron, a futuristic melodrama set inside a video game, hopes to lure the addicts of the arcades back to moviehouses. New versions of Rocky, Grease, Star Trek and The Thing will tempt old adherents. The Road Warrior and Blade Runner will offer up eye-catching punk-rock apocalypses. Robin Williams will attempt to enter The World According to Garp. Clint Eastwood and Woody Allen have new movies, and Burt Reynolds...
With a cool precision not always seen on its flights, Braniff in a matter of hours called in its 75 aircraft, canceled all flights, fired nearly 9,000 employees and threw a police guard around its lavish $70 million headquarters building at Dallas-Fort Worth Airport. Flight 501 was on its way toward Hawaii when it made an unscheduled stop in Santa Barbara, Calif., apparently to decide whether the plane should return to Dallas. The choice to continue was made. Captain Bob Gilchrist, the pilot of what possibly was history's final Braniff flight, 902 from Buenos Aires...
...1970s, annual Government cash payments for public aid mushroomed 156%, to $21.8 billion. Despite this lavish spending, however, progress against poverty stalled. By 1980 there were 13% of Americans who were still poor, virtually the same percentage...