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...male gnome remains potent until about 350 years of age or that the buxom females, unencumbered by gravity, go braless may be of greater interest to parents than to the very young. The rest of this oversize book, with its bounteous legends, its wealth of robust humor and lavish illuminations, deserves a resounding G rating as ageless entertainment...
...family. CBS has the Fitzpatricks, NBC has Mulligan's Stew, and ABC has Eight Is Enough. By some grand irony, however, PBS, the poor stepsister network, has the two most ambitious family sagas: I, Claudius, yet another impressive import from the BBC, and The Best of Families, a lavish $6 million drama of New York City in the last two decades of the 19th century. Running simultaneously, the two series offer a lesson in contrasts, showing just how good...
...actors as with the play itself. For one thing, it's much too long: after all, who really wants to sit through nearly three hours of blood-line politics? The length is exaggerated by the quality of the emotional stasis. In the first act, the audience is served a lavish offering of greed, selfishness, jealousy, and fear; in the second act, the theme is greed, selfishness, jealousy, and fear; in the third act...you get the idea. There's very little variation or development, with the result that what ought to be a wrenching death-struggle is merely interesting...
...Calcutta. Shankar began his career as a painter but at 21 was discovered by Russian Ballet Dancer Anna Pavlova and invited to accompany her on a tour of the U.S. A decade later he returned to New York with his own troupe and introduced to the West a lavish, dramatic version of classic Indian dance. His dream, Shankar proclaimed, was to "create an atmosphere where the soul of India could speak...
...biggest expense is the $400,000 in interest he owes annually on the $5 million he borrowed from five banks to finance his many operations. In addition, Lance must meet payments on his real estate mortgage, which he listed in January at $340,000. Lance has vastly enjoyed a lavish lifestyle; he has three Georgia homes: a 40-room mansion in Atlanta, a $100,000 house in Calhoun and a $200,000 retreat at Sea Island...