Word: lavishes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Despite lavish sets and a horde of turbaned, five o'clock shadowed extras, "A Night in Casablanca" is a funny picture, but far below the capacities of the Brothers Marx. Its primary fault lies not in the plot, but that there is a plot at all, which, vaguely, concerns a group of post-war Nazis and their attempt to transfer stolen European loot to South America. Director Archie Mayo, evidently a man with a conscience, turns his three charges into fumbling sleuths, who, finally, get their man, if not their woman. Such concern over villains and their "just deserts' cuts...
...results, on exhibition in a Manhattan gallery this week, showed something of the lavish care and knotted intensity with which medieval monks illuminated the writings of the Church Fathers and the lives of the Saints. But their subject matter was more surrealistic than sacred. Their usual theme: the horror of war, illustrated by such symbolism as rotting flesh on temple steps. There were no heroics. In the new Dark Age, saints bore assumed names, and martyrdom was usual...
...meeting's lavish host was the British Labor Party, which set up an un-austere dinner of hors d'oeuvres, soup, chicken, potatoes, peas, cabbage and a choice of three sweets to be washed down with sound, unimaginative red Saint-Julien, a white Bordeaux and liqueur. (Because Oulton Hall is not a licensed house, the drinks had to be brought all the way from London...
...bitter public gossip about banquets for a few while millions starved (TIME, May 6) echoed in China's Executive Yuan. Under Premier T. V. Soong, the Nanking Government ordered all civil servants to observe austerity. Items: no lavish gifts or ceremonies, no dancing. Those who enter taxi dancehalls or "any improper place" and those who "invite prostitutes or singsong girls to amuse them" would be fired...
...picture most gallerygoers liked best was Beckmann's monumental triptych Acrobats, a highflying, three-ring circus fantasy wild enough to outclass even Ringling Bros. He had splashed on colors with the lavish hand of a man who wakes up to find a rainbow in his pocket. And he made each color count...