Word: lavishes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...asset (an office building) for a profit-a practice known as asset stripping-and used the money to finance his next acquisition. By 1968 the Slater, Walker pyramid had grown to 500 firms and Slater's personal fortune had risen to an estimated $10 million. He bought a lavish manor in Surrey and spent long weekends there indulging his passion for chess. In 1972 he provided $125,000 of his own cash as a prize for the world chess championship, luring a reluctant Bobby Fischer into his celebrated match with Boris Spassky...
Usually, the highlights of a Mainstage production are its lavish and innovative sets and costumes. Even in this respect, however, The Tutor, though entirely adequate, is a little bit of a disappointment; if anything, the various low ceilinged sets only add to the confining quality of the drama...
...attendant criticism from opposition leaders and an unshackled press. There are signs of a drift toward a cult of personality. The back of one bus bears the florid declaration COURAGE AND CLARITY OF VISION, THY NAME IS INDIRA GANDHI. The government-run television has also stepped up its already lavish coverage of the Prime Minister and her Cabinet...
...absolutely nothing about money." Springsteen lives sometimes with his girl friend Karen Darvin, 20, a freckled, leggy model from Texas, in a small apartment on Manhattan's East Side. More frequently he is down on the Jersey shore, where he has just moved into more comfortable-but not lavish-quarters, and bought his first decent hi-fi rig. He remains adamantly indifferent to clothing and personal adornment, although he wears a small gold cross around his neck-a vestigial remnant of Catholicism-and, probably to challenge it, a small gold ring in his left ear, which gives...
Nobody else, for instance, can bring off the mixture of lavish Matissean col or, literary irony and veiled narrative - like disconnected stills from a Fritz Lang film - from which R.B. Kitaj, in such works as Malta (1974), constructs a new form of history-painting. There is no American equivalent to the cold edgy handling (nightmare as literature, so to speak) in paintings by the Italian Valerio Adami. But the difference especially comes out in "domestic" figurative painting, which seems more complex and problematical - more difficult of approach - in Europe than in America. Hence the extraordinary flavor of the nudes...