Word: lavishes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Goyas & Gielgud. Washington's most lavish diplomatic entertainments are given by Spain's Ambassador José Marie M. de Areilza, Count of Motrico, and his wife, who live in one of the capital's most breathtaking houses (white-walled ballroom, priceless tapestries, bubbling fountain). The Spaniards are hosts at huge New Year's Eve balls, an annual Columbus Day party (1,000 guests) and spring Verbena (carnival), bring in flamenco dancers who whirl to the clapping of the guests (including the ambassador, sitting on the floor). For perfectly detailed dinners and suppers, nobody surpasses Peru...
Titanic Proportions. A gold-crusted coach drawn by six bays hauled the Garcias in style to the Imperial Palace. At a lavish banquet, court musicians played those old Japanese airs, Haydn's 17th Symphony and selections from The Barber of Seville, and gifts were exchanged all around (including a stole and purse for Crown Prince Akihito's bride-to-be, who ' was barred by Japanese protocol from attending). Amiable Old Pol Garcia soon had the shy Emperor beaming...
...befits a man who is just as funny offstage as on, Backus loves the irony that he now lives a far more lavish version of what he fled. Though his business manager gives him only $20 a week, Backus expects to earn $125,000 this year. The towels in his Hollywood house are embossed Senor and Senora, his party guests love the lampshade act, and year-round his wife keeps the swimming pool at a decadent 89°. "On cold winter nights," says he, "the steam rising from it causes the place to look like the set of Wuthering Heights...
...feels that the Russian arts all froze at about 1923. Even the best motion pictures were little more than pale imitations of German experimentalism, in the 1930's. And the ballet, "while given lavish productions and excellently performed, is a little old-fashioned. Nothing modern--about 1910 in conception...
...Walter's wandering paid off, he became a distinguished architect and a shrewd and lucky purchaser of mining properties. Twenty years ago, to celebrate his acquisition of an enormously profitable lead and zinc mine at Zellidja, Morocco, Walter began passing out some of the world's least lavish and most demanding scholarships. Each year, 300 young lycée graduates (average age: 18½) get $70 each, and certificates explaining their mission. Then the Zellidja scholars are thrust off to begin research projects, pledged not to use any money except the $70 stipend. They are on their honor...