Word: lavishes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nixon's unprecedentedly lavish use of the claim of Executive privilege -based on the theory that he can only get candid advice from aides if he keeps their conversations with him confidential-is at the core of his defense. Obviously, if the Supreme Court rules that Nixon's claim of Executive privilege to protect his tapes is not valid in the criminal case of his former associates, it would have no validity at all in the transcending circumstances of impeachment...
...needs all the voltage it can stand. From Chabrol and his stars, it gets only a few anemic charges. The paramours are intrepidly bourgeois, their longing for each other so squalidly selfish and narcissistic that every time they paw each other they seem to be polishing a mirror. They lavish the sort of affection and attention on each other that no one else could ever devote to them. That is no small part of the reason Wedding in Blood seems so overwrought, without the tension or the wit that marks Chabrol's best work. He adds, almost desperately...
Both the theater and the company are products of the lavish if uncertain tastes of ballet's reigning Lady Bountiful, Rebekah Harkness, 59. A Standard Oil heiress (courtesy of her late second husband), Mrs. Harkness has had a somewhat tempestuous career as a patron of the arts. Two earlier companies she sponsored broke up in complicated spats involving their artistic directors. Presumably to avoid any recurrence of these aesthetic quarrels, Mrs. Harkness is artistic director as well as proprietor of the present company, most of whose 39 dancers are graduates of her highly regarded school of dance...
Many press stories about the President's questionable financing of his San Clemente property and lavish Government-paid improvements to his private facilities there and in Key Biscayne should have alerted the IRS that his returns rated a new and sharper scrutiny. In the fall of 1973, an IRS employee decided on his own that the public ought to know about the amazingly low taxes paid by the President and leaked the figures for 1970 and 1971 to the Providence Journal-Bulletin...
Looking back over the last five years, it is apparent that White House Aides H.R. ("Bob") Haldeman and John Ehrlichman were most successful at redecorating their White House offices, assembling Nixon's lavish complex of quarters from coast to coast, and manipulating the President's private fortune...