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Stylistically, the film is a cultural hodge-podge filled with misplaced Americanisms and out of context references. Andrews and Garner discuss "relationships" as only post-1960's lovers would, and her career versus marriage conflict seems equally anachronistic. Henry Mancini's lavish musical numbers are supposedly the main attraction for a decadent nightclub, but his pieces are hardly very risque Yet the plot and competent acting hold Victor Victoria together...
With a combined price tag of $1.63 billion, the cost of the two vesels is relatively cheap compared with the more then $1.6 trillion in defense spending that the Reagan Administration plans to lavish on American industry between now and 1987. In addition to at least 130 new combat and support vessels for the Navy, the Administration's shopping list calls for more than 3,900 jet fighters, bombers and transport aircraft, 8,880 tanks and cannon-carrying troop transports and, during the next decade, some 14,000 strategic and tactical bombs and missiles for the nation...
...colored by 1980's labor disputes, began in a lackluster fashion. Soprano Renata Scotto was booed in her opening-night performance of Norma, and a Ring semicycle (Das Rheingold and Siegfried) fizzled out in something less than Wagnerian glory. It was in December, with Franco Zeffirelli's lavish cast-of-thousands production of La Bohème, that the company began the return to form...
...again, my petal. Say it again." The lady complied, and lo, with all the eye-rolling gaucherie of a Groucho Marx-Margaret Dumont coupling, LizanDick were, gasp, together again. She was in London for the West End run of her Broadway hit The Little Foxes. At a lavish 50th birthday party thrown in her honor at a Mayfair nightclub, the pair toasted each other with champagne and by evening's end were dancing cheek to cheek. Taylor and Senator John Warner, 55, separated in December, and Burton and his wife Susan parted last year. But the seven-time-married...
Even foreigners who are not so surprised upon their arrival in the U.S. comment on the clear differences between athletic programs here and abroad. Hurdler Steve Ezeji-Okoye expected, and found, much more lavish and modern track facilities here than if he had gone to college in England. "That's the reputation the United States has abroad," he says...