Word: lavishing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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DUBLIN: A PORTRAIT, by V. S. Pritchett, with photographs by Evelyn Hofer. This elegant union of literate text and lavish pictures should be a staple on Hibernian coffee tables for years to come...
DUBLIN: A PORTRAIT, by V. S. Pritchett, with photographs by Evelyn Hofer. This elegant union of literate text and lavish pictures should be a staple on Hibernian coffee tables for years to come...
...bigger, more brilliant, jampacked with virtuosity, and more outrageous than ever before. No fewer than 65 countries, ranging from Trinidad-Tobago to the Soviet Union, sent 4,132 works of art. The U.S.'s lavish convocation of nearly 20 popartists' work, called "Environment U.S.A.," was selected by Brandeis University's William Seitz and bankrolled by the Smithsonian; it is easily the biggest crowd pleaser of the lot, although only one American, Jasper Johns, won a minor ($2,220) award. The U.S. exhibit, with its garish colors, ghoulish assemblages and grotesque figures, comes across as an eerie, lunar...
Last week the friction between the two was still evident. At a lavish election-eve reception, for which invitations had been issued in both Thieu and Ky's names, Ky pointedly did not appear. NBC had arranged for both men to appear on its Meet the Press program this week, but when it came time for the taping, Thieu told NBC that he would not appear with Ky. Thieu's press officer coolly explained why: since most of the questions would deal with "policy matters, if General Ky sits through the program, there would be no questions directed...
...mopped repeatedly at his ample jowls and bald dome. His sweat was understandable. Sir Stafford Lofthouse Sands, 54, until eight months ago the most powerful political figure in the Bahama Islands, was trying to explain just why he had been paid $1,800,000 by the operators of two lavish and controversial casinos. The money, charged a royal investigating commission, had changed hands both before and after the casino owners were exempted from the Bahamas' law against gambling, by the government in which Sands was Minister of Finance and Tourism...