Word: lavished
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with each other, except that both are drawn from 19th century novels and both end with haunting cries on behalf of the dispossessed. Nickleby was story theater, narrating its tale as much as acting it out, and using relatively simple sets, lights and costumes. Les Miserables is lavish, with turntables rotating iron gates, marble pillars and big makeshift barricades. Nickleby told of virtue rewarded and villainy punished, while Les Miserables depicts a world less blessed with moral order. But whether or not Les Miserables can match Nickleby's commercial impact, it is extraordinarily ambitious and exciting. Its complex story unfolds...
...Sever Hall: In 1878, the University commissioned one of the greatest architects of the 19th century to build a desperately needed building for classrooms. H.H. Richardson designed a romanesque revival Sever Hall "that combined lavish ornamentation with quiet monumentality in a way that no other 19th-century American could...
...this sad biography shows, the perks were lavish but the emotional cost prohibitive. Joan, an upper-middle-class girl from the suburb of Bronxville, N.Y., paid for her real and imagined humiliations by becoming an alcoholic. Much of her story, as told by former Administrative Assistant Marcia Chellis, deals with victory over the bottle. There are references to the Senator's compulsive rovings, Joan's search for a more attentive man ("I need a man in my life and I don't just mean 'safe' men"), notes on the contents of her refrigerator ("frozen lobster newburgh, creamed chicken, diet root...
...amount, the indictment says, DeLorean used $7.5 million to buy Utah-based Logan Manufacturing, which makes equipment for maintaining ski slopes. He allegedly used the remaining $1.4 million for personal expenses and repayment of a loan. All the while, DeLorean and his then wife Model Cristina Ferrare enjoyed a lavish life-style, which included a 25-room mansion in Bedminster, N.J., a 48-acre ranch in San Diego County and a 20-room apartment on Fifth Avenue overlooking New York City's Central Park...
Welch seems to believe that contact with the West, or at least with Britain, vitiated India's arts, and he proves the point all too insistently with a final roomful of tatty 19th century artifacts. The one exception is the Baroda carpet, a lavish if gaudy confection of pearls, rubies, emeralds, diamonds and glass beads sewn onto deerskin and silk. From its shimmering surface, the exotic images of the legendary India seem to glint anew...