Word: lavishes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...delegates were merely actors in the unsuspenseful drams. Three thousand Young Voters for the President played a crucial supporting role. The powerful elite which steers the Republican Party spent four days directing producing and orchestrating the gala event--gala, this is, if the proper credentials and invitations to lavish afterhours parties were obtainable...
...hereditary enemy of England, and that precious few Frenchmen are depicted with anything but derision and distaste in Shakespeare. Apply the argument in reverse. Tennessee Williams has given us remarkable and far from unsympathetic in-depth portraits of women. Does that make him profeminist? If Shakespeare did not lavish his hugest genius on women, it is probably because female roles were played by boys on the Elizabethan stage, and not because he was a homosexual, a supposition Fiedler makes yet again on the basis of the sonnets...
Because Bench is a brash, smooth-talking top-drawer athlete with a lavish bachelor pad in a Cincinnati singles complex, he naturally invites comparison with Joe Namath. The comparison is invidious. He is warm, friendly and never overweening. Bench's confidence is the deeply ingrained type peculiar to young men who have always known exactly what they wanted to do in life. As he recalls: "In the second grade they asked us what we wanted to be. Some said they wanted to be a farmer. Some said rancher or cowboy. I said I wanted to be a ballplayer...
...Clark Graebner has set up a clinic which last year attracted 5,000 students to its 24-hr.-day, seven-day-week sessions. For $50, tennis buffs get eight hours of concentrated practice with a ball machine and videotape recordings to see what went wrong. There are also more lavish teaching setups like John Gardiner's Tennis Ranch in Carmel Valley, Calif. There, 20 students at a time spend $450 for a grueling five-day immersion in fundamentals and tactics. Gardiner's exhausting program is embellished by rubdowns from a masseur who used to work for the Gabor...
...cash is needed not for television coverage, which is free, but for more or less openly buying delegate votes. Already the lavish wooing of the 478 delegates voting in next week's election is being conducted in the expensive geisha restaurants of Tokyo's Akasaka district. According to widely circulated rumors, a delegate can receive $1,500 for merely attending one of these persuasion sessions. If he promises his support, the reward can jump to as high as $15,000 for an ordinary delegate and $30,000 for the leader of a faction. In some cases, the faction...