Word: lavishes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Historic Turnover. The turnover of the grand jury's evidence, on the other hand, was transacted with lavish security and given all the attention of a historic event. No fewer than 22 uniformed police of the Federal Protective Services formed a double line as three members of the Rodino staff-Chief Counsel John Doar, Minority Counsel Albert Jenner and Assistant Counsel Robert Shelton -arrived at Washington's Federal Courthouse to pick up the evidence. The crush of newsmen, however, diverted the Committee lawyers away from this protective corridor as they moved from their car up the courthouse steps...
...caviar-stocked club room, a brass-railed bar and a lavish grand salon. There is an art gallery, a library and a sauna in the master bedroom. Suede and leather love seats, divans and marble tables are conveniently placed, and for entertainment, Sony videotape monitors and a Thomas electric organ are available. In the gourmet galley, the chef can whip up virtually any dish from terrine of duck to soul food-served with Waterford crystal, Reed and Barton silver and gilded Noritake china...
...counterpoint to the drawing-room tragedy. But he is as captivated by the bounties of wealth as Gatsby was, and spends endless minutes gliding his camera around expensive rooms or across the crowded floor of Gatsby's galas, all staged with a certain lavish clumsiness. This gives the film a numbing, punishing quality, as if everyone were trapped at some purgatorial party that will never end. At a running time of close to 2% hours, it frequently seems that indeed it will...
MAGAZINE and newspaper layout is in some sense an art, but it is a commercial one, and it can simultaneously be technically proficient and creatively sterile. People is easy enough to read, it is even reasonably attractive. The ragged right columns and the lavish use of pictures--some good and some so bad that they would never appear in Time--give the undertaking an informality appropriate to the spineless and pointless quality of the copy. The effort is an example of form literally without content...
Great Expectations. Most found Gatsby visually beautiful, an example of a lavish budget used intelligently. Acknowledging the movie's opulence, one guest said that it is "very slow in getting started, ran awfully long, and the characters were about impossible to get into at all." Part of the problem apparently is the pace. Both Coppola's script and Clayton's direction treat Fitzgerald reverentially, giving each scene almost equal emphasis. Another problem, surprising in a Coppola script, is wooden dialogue. Several viewers complain that the actors cannot speak long stretches of straight Fitzgerald prose convincingly. Unfortunately...