Word: lavishes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That was also the difference between S. Hurok and most other impresarios. He insisted on being-and duly became -a star in his own right, and he acted accordingly. He bestowed extravagant gifts on friends and colleagues, threw lavish parties, even appeared in a Hollywood movie about himself (Tonight We Sing...
...With its lavish use of pictures and its breezy tone about personalities, PEOPLE is bound to remind some readers of other Time Inc. publications. Stolley, 45, a former assistant managing editor of LIFE, cautions against instant analogies: "PEOPLE is not a reborn LIFE in reduced size, and it is not the People section of TIME stretched to 50 editorial pages." What PEOPLE actually is should become clearer with each new issue, but Stolley foresees no problem in establishing the magazine's identity: "There is nothing abstract about our name. People are what we are all about...
...huge assessments are particularly galling to Carrozzo because of the lavish life-styles of the Armstrongs and the fact that the church has built an extravagant auditorium in Pasadena, which may end up costing as much as $24 million. For its opening in April, the Vienna Symphony is being flown over to the tune of an estimated...
...dance routines and the music are quite a bit of work, especially considering that, at least as far as the kick line goes, the amount of talent involved is pitifully meager. Voight Kempson, the director, does a lot to compensate for this absence, by a lavish and effective use of mannerisms. The pit band seems more competent, though they tend to drown out some of the weaker voices onstage. The music Jonathan Scheffer and Barry Cohen dreamed up (stole?) for this show is the usual pastiche of everything from Motown to madrigal, with Harry Belafonte thrown in as some sort...
...decoration, careful to avoid subverting the circumstances of poverty into sentimentality. The Luther kids-all played by nonprofessional actors-live in a cabin wallpapered with newspaper, which also serves from time to time as a residence for a pet pig and a cow. The surrounding mountain country has a lavish beauty, on which the Luther cabin is a canker...