Word: lavished
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...Dior men's business was sleeping, women's has been rocking and rolling, forcing everyone around it to pay attention. Since 1997, Galliano has been working to create a house of Dior that is racy, loud and, most of all, fun. Where Hedi sees simple shapes, John sees lavish layers. Where Slimane sees minimalism, Galliano sees extravaganza. Galliano, the postmodernist, takes the world and its history as his inspiration-creating collections that revisit the aesthetic of, say, the Amazons or the trailer park, and presents them in a whole new light...
...laundry revenues and popular House events, a handful of Houses are awash in cash and are even considering lavish purchases like jacuzzi tubs...
...after Bush's lavish introduction - the next president does owe us a little exposure, now that he's won, and Bush made sure his part was big enough to pace the newscasts - a nattily suited Powell strode to the mike and pinned on the medal...
...cash flowing back in the Samsonites is so lavish that money-wiring agencies in Port-au-Prince post signs limiting transfers to Colombia to $1,000. Haiti, of course, has no money-laundering laws. The money is fueling a grossly incongruous boom in luxury-home construction in Port-au-Prince and, say locals, paying for a glitzy new shopping center in more impoverished Port-de-Paix. The mall was built by Michel Oreste, 70, whom Haitian officials describe as a modern-day successor to the buccaneers who once controlled the northern coast. Oreste denies involvement in drugs, and while Haitian...
Instead, she has focused on lavish business trips to New York, Brazil and Australia to drum up commerce and culture. She is proud of bringing international culture like Mexico's Ballet Folklorico to Florida. "You can't believe how hard I work," she told the St. Petersburg Times last month. But a high-ranking state Democratic official, who was on the phone with Harris when the Florida recount was ordered on election night, says he was angry about her apparent foot dragging "until we realized that it was because she really didn't know what to do at that point...