Word: lavishes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Godspell. Stephen Schwartz's musical based on the Gospel according to St. Matthew, which you may remeber from its lavish and innovative film version a few years ago and the AM radio hit "Day by Day." At The Charles Playhouse, 74 Warrenton Street, through December 21. Performances Tuesday-Friday at 8 p.m., Saturday at 6:30 and 9:30 p.m., Sunday...
...hardly any secret that corporations currying favor in Washington throw lavish parties at the Burning Tree Golf Club and produce timely gifts for key politicians. But Gulf Oil Corp. seems to have gone further than most. The giant company (1974 sales: $16.5 billion), now the target of four federal investigations, is accused of operating a covert $10 million slush fund for the benefit of some top politicians at home and abroad. The practice directly defies a federal law that forbids corporate donations to politicians running for national office. As a result of testimony that has recently become public, Gulf...
...grown tired of the strife that has racked Surinam since the Hindustanis lost the 1973 elections. A tide of mostly Hindustani immigrants has swollen The Netherlands' Surinamese population from 60,000 to 140,000; they have come to take advantage of the citizenship−not to mention the lavish welfare system−that the Dutch offer all their colonial subjects. At first the newcomers were warmly welcome. But the tolerant Dutch are troubled by Surinamese ghettoes growing up in their neat towns. Many of the immigrants are without jobs and have no marketable skills; some have turned to crime...
...waves−the sourest, crudest ravager of the medium since Spiro Agnew put away his thesaurus. Deeb's daily diatribes, now syndicated to 60 papers, do not merely dissect new shows but also provide inside accounts of broadcast-industry greed, timidity and assorted other failings. Deeb has described lavish network press junkets in embarrassing detail, disclosed power struggles at local stations, and even exposed the suppression of an abortion documentary at WON, the Trib 's own TV outlet...
...affluent days of Harvard, say the 1960's when lots of government money was coming into the Faculty and professors were in great demand in the outside world, the Faculty could afford to be lavish in everything it did. Times have changed, however, and if Dean Rosovsky's annual budget letter is any indication, a little belt-tightening is in store for next year...