Word: lavish
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...cast leaves nothing to be desired, and Playwright Williams is a prose poet with a lavish sense of humor and such musically evocative imagery that one may leave the theater with the lines of When It's Sleepy Time Down South running through one's mind...
Tito reveled in the applause, just as he relished a number of decidedly unproletarian luxuries. He dressed in stylishly tailored suits, as well as bemedaled uniforms that Churchill once called Tito's "gold-lace straitjacket." He traveled in a Mercedes-Benz limousine, a lavish yacht and a special train; among his other perks of office were half a dozen residences, several hunting lodges and a villa on the Adriatic isle of Brioni. He savored good food and drink and had an appreciative eye for pretty women. In 1977 Tito and his third wife Jovanka, 55, had a falling...
...mistake; one yearns for a scene in which Caan busts loose, gives full vent to his pain and anger. Yet there is something touching in his patience, his refusal to generalize his case into an indictment of society. The discontinuity between the care the Government is willing to lavish on a helpful hood and its indifference to a good but anonymous citizen who is impeding one of its grand designs comes across more strongly through understatement. So does the point that a father, when threatened, can be as fierce in his love for his children as any mother...
...uneasy routine. Among the ambassadors, all were said to be standing up well under the pressure, except one: Venezuela's Virgilio Lovera, 63, a gregarious political appointee diplomat who, at one point last week, was treated by a cardiologist summoned to the embassy. Hitherto known for his lavish parties, Lovera bombarded his embassy and newspapers with telephoned pleas for capitulation. Implored Lovera, in one such call: "This is not a legal problem. This is a human problem that should be resolved in concordance with the law of God to preserve human life. We hostages are what is called...
...while he seemed to have lost his touch. His early '70s work with the Beatles, especially Lennon, was big-spirited and lavish, but brought him an unaccustomed critical drubbing. His marriage to Ronnie, lead singer of the Ronettes, broke up in 1973. He was in at least one serious auto accident and underwent extensive surgery and facial restoration. His records after that-albums by Dion and Leonard Cohen, singles by Cher and Darlene Love-were as black as the vinyl they were pressed on. Even the upbeat numbers sounded funereal. The little symphonies became requiems celebrated inside a Wurlitzer...