Word: lavish
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...been based largely on exotic, intricately decorated, grand evening gowns which blend the pre-Raphaelite and Nell Gwynne styles. Demand for their work, which they advertise as 'bringing glamour back to evening clothes,' has grown as jet-set and upper-class balls have become more nostalgically lavish in times of general gloom." British commentators noted happily that Di seems determined to project a style that is in keeping with her own personality rather than that of a waxwork royal at Madame Tussaud...
...Grande to Tierra del Fuego. Bribing in Mexico is handled with the stylized flair of a Latin seduction, beginning with dinner at an expensive restaurant like La Hacienda de los Morales, and climaxing with a weekend jet-jaunt to Punta Cancun or Acapulco. The target of such lavish hospitality is most often the head of purchasing in one of the Mexican government's state ministries, who oversees procurement and importing...
...Brazil bribery is often not just figuratively but literally a matter of seduction. Says a top West German businessman there: "Lavish entertainments with women-that is very effective." In the booming industrial megalopolis of Sao Paulo, a favorite spot to nurse along a deal is La Licorne, a discreetly mirrored nightclub with a striptease show, where call girls cost $120 a night, and foreign businessmen pick...
...concealed as embarrassing. Now the impulse is out of the closet, which is a relief-although it seems not to have produced any genuinely major painting. The best of the peintre-décorateurs, and the longest at it, is Robert Zakanitch, 45 represented at the Whitney with a lavish and seductive canvas of two swans, heraldically conjoined at the heads, floating on a gray-green field of water and creamy lilies. But younger painters tend to settle for something lighter, stylish in a glitzy way and openly bird-brained. Beside Robert Kushner's Same Outfit, 1979, Dufy might...
After perfunctory questioning that evening at an Islamic Guards headquarters set up in the late Shah's lavish Saadabad Palace in the northern part of the city, most of the detainees were released. I was not. My questioning had scarcely begun when a guard whispered something into my interrogator's ear. "You are sure?" he replied. "Yes," answered the first. I was blindfolded again and taken to another detention center. The conversation among my guards was chilling: "Tonight? ... What's he done...