Word: lavished
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...same time, the President has promised to chart a new economic future for the country, with his own government acting as an example of austerity. Officials last week announced that there will be no more expensive military parades like the one at which Sadat was killed. The lavish celebrations Sadat had planned to commemorate the return of the Sinai are also being scaled down. As Mubarak prepared for his first visit as President to the U.S. this week, he left behind a nation unmistakably on the mend from the trauma of Sadat's assassination...
...which opens with suitable fanfare to the New York public this week, is certainly the most spectacular permanent exhibition of "primitive" art (though not the best collection of it) that can be seen in any museum anywhere in the world. Never before has white Western culture paid such lavish homage to the black, brown and red cultures that, since 1500, it colonized, cheated, evangelized, enslaved and, not infrequently, destroyed. There are too many bones beneath this monument to enable anyone to contemplate it without deep ambivalence...
...which has won the meet for the past two years, offers lavish scholarships to its athletes and therefore is not normally scheduled to square off against the Crimson squad during the season. When perusing a potent B.U. lineup that includes 27-year-old sophomore Julie White--a favorite in both the long and high jumps--Hunt sighs, "What the hell are we supposed...
...Newport's Millionaires' Row that they acquired in 1970. The 20-room mansion was somewhat small by Newport standards, and the Von Billows were not birthright members of the "summer colony," but it was not long before they were pillars of local society. They entertained on a lavish scale. Says one frequent guest: "You go to John Doe's house for an informal visit and expect a gin and tonic. At Sunny's house, you got imported champagne." The party celebrating Alexander's 21st birthday was especially memorable. Women in white dresses carrying parasols...
...capacity, both vocally and dramatically, to range from angelic purity to raw urgency made her a superb choice to sing Mimi opposite Tenor José Carreras' Rodolfo in Franco Zeffirelli's spectacularly realistic new production of La Bohème at the Met-perhaps the most lavish setting ever created for Puccini's tale. (The production, which PBS is televising nationally this Wednesday on Live from the Met, surpasses in opulence even Zeffirelli's famous La Scala staging of 1963. In the second act, it seems that tout Paris is milling about the Café Momus...