Word: lavished
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...natural psychology that his sweeping economic changes would succeed was always an essential part of the program. The Administration can be faulted for not heeding the warning signals that this year's budget deficit might balloon beyond expectations, and that its defense spending plans might prove too lavish. But the rush to judgment before the first tax or budget cut even takes place is a curious reaction, particularly from those in the business and investment community who have such large stakes in a Reagan revolution that works. -By Ed Magnuson. Reported by Douglas Brew with Reagan
Toward the end of his life, Guston was painting the world as a charnel house of gross dreams and irreconcilable conflicts: no satisfaction anywhere, except in the creamy, impasted paint, which remained as lavish as in his abstract paintings. The essential Guston is all there in a work like Entrance, 1979. It is about intrusion and helplessness, the mind's impotence to fend off its demons. A door opens, and in rolls a mass of Guston's standard images-the trampling, dismembered limbs, nasty enough even without the bugs that advance with them across the floor. Then...
Although Los Angeles is the capital of the solid gold condo, it is by no means unique in the U.S. Around Miami, at least 4,000 luxury units are under construction; most are sold out. One of the most lavish habitats, Grove Isle at Coconut Grove, Fla., has a garden graced with sculpture by Alexander Calder and Louise Nevelson. Condo owners at the Turnberry Isle Yacht and Racquet Club in North Miami Beach have access to two Robert Trent Jones golf courses, 24 tennis courts, a marina, health spa and disco...
...that striving for perfection that most impresses acquaintances. When she and John helped complete their lavish home in suburban Paradise Valley, where houses cost $500,000 or more, one friend was amazed to find them both soaking adobe bricks in coat after coat of milk. "It's an old technique," O'Connor explained. "But I don't know why you use skim and not homogenized milk." Her father, who is 83, jokes about her diligence. "She's so damned conscientious," he says, "she wouldn't even give me a legal opinion. As a judge...
...that. It proceeds at a pace that must seem stately to tots reared on TV cartoons and the current batch of Saturday matinee-type features. It rarely ascends into exhilaration or slumps into camp. The direction of some actors is pedestrian, if not oafish. But as a lavish vehicle for the talents of Effects Wizard Ray Harryhausen, Clash offers delights to the eye and spirit of every moviegoing adult who has wanted to revisit the dreams of his youth...