Word: lavished
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first TIME cover story on travel in 1956, some 500,000 U.S. tourists were expected in Europe. For this week's sequel, Demarest, a specialist on the changing needs and tastes of U.S. travelers, looks at the revived interest in vacations abroad and the enthusiasm Europeans will lavish on a predicted 4.2 million American visitors...
...from Washington and Moscow, through August. Hot-air flight is also the specialty of the 18th century Château Cezy, located 90 miles southwest of Paris. Its owner, Englishman Donald Porter, offers fearless vacationers ballooning in Burgundy, a four-day, three-night aerial adventure. Meals and wines are lavish, with matching prices: $1,700 a person for three nights. Guests who prefer water to air can join the château's six-person "gourmet barge," which costs $6,000 a week to charter, all meals and wines included. Professional travel notes: airline tickets, hotels, tours...
...supervisors, could have been fooled by anyone so preposterous. Kujau, who since the 1960s had used the alias Fischer, often strutted around Stuttgart in a Nazi SS officer's uniform, although he was a boy of six when Hitler's Third Reich fell in 1945. He gave lavish parties for fellow patrons of his favorite bars: Stern reported that one night he ordered 70 bottles of champagne, and that over the past two years he squandered 1.5 million marks ($600,000) on night life...
...been in years. He doesn't give a hoot that he's about to turn 80, but all the fresh attention makes him feel on top again. Last week the Senate celebrated his birthday and this week NBC is devoting an entire prime-time evening to a lavish tribute from Washington's Kennedy Center. The President and Nancy will be there to honor Hope and his wife of 48 years, Dolores. So will the third generation of pretty young TV women-Cheryl Tiegs, Christie Brinkley-who have smiled their way through Bob's corny on-screen...
...wife Nancy, he meticulously updated findings that concentrated on Europe's creature comforts, not culture (he dismissed Rome's Colosseum as having "a remarkable permanency"). The hearty Fielding style was sometimes irritating, but his advice about potential surprises helped nervous travelers feel at home abroad. He was lavish with both praise and blame, lauding Greek tavernas and Dutch honesty and censuring rip-off artists like Venetian gondoliers, whom he called "surly, devious, tip-hungry ruffians...