Word: lavished
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...because they are trying to keep up appearances while they fight the disastrous consequences of the American addiction to buy-now-pay-later. "Nothing seemed extravagant," says Steve. "We kept thinking, 'We're successful people, we make a lot of money, and we aren't being lavish. Why are we in trouble...
With a cool precision not always seen on its flights, Braniff in a matter of hours called in its 75 aircraft, canceled all flights, fired nearly 9,000 employees and threw a police guard around its lavish $70 million headquarters building at Dallas-Fort Worth Airport. Flight 501 was on its way toward Hawaii when it made an unscheduled stop in Santa Barbara, Calif., apparently to decide whether the plane should return to Dallas. The choice to continue was made. Captain Bob Gilchrist, the pilot of what possibly was history's final Braniff flight, 902 from Buenos Aires...
...1970s, annual Government cash payments for public aid mushroomed 156%, to $21.8 billion. Despite this lavish spending, however, progress against poverty stalled. By 1980 there were 13% of Americans who were still poor, virtually the same percentage...
Stylistically, the film is a cultural hodge-podge filled with misplaced Americanisms and out of context references. Andrews and Garner discuss "relationships" as only post-1960's lovers would, and her career versus marriage conflict seems equally anachronistic. Henry Mancini's lavish musical numbers are supposedly the main attraction for a decadent nightclub, but his pieces are hardly very risque Yet the plot and competent acting hold Victor Victoria together...
...colored by 1980's labor disputes, began in a lackluster fashion. Soprano Renata Scotto was booed in her opening-night performance of Norma, and a Ring semicycle (Das Rheingold and Siegfried) fizzled out in something less than Wagnerian glory. It was in December, with Franco Zeffirelli's lavish cast-of-thousands production of La Bohème, that the company began the return to form...