Word: lavishing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mame, Angela Lansbury has the lavish flair of her costuming. Her singing, dancing and acting are a triple treat. But she lacks that ultimate intangible: star authority-the difference between leasing a stage and owning it. As Mame's actressy pal, Beatrice Arthur is a crafty comedienne, a woman who delivers a line as if someone had put lye in her martinis. And Frankie Michaels as young Patrick has the charm of an acting boy rather than a boy actor. It is good to have the season end not with a bomb but a winner...
Arabesque. Among the experts consulted during production of this lavish suspense comedy was a British color psychologist, who must have suggested lots of bright red for excitement. Brightness helps a little, but otherwise the entire movie appears to have been assembled in the same mechanical way. Certainly some unimaginative travel agent chose the in-and-around-London locations: Trafalgar Square, the Zoo, the Royal Enclosure at Ascot. A consultant on film fads surely recommended the modish scenes of violence, since the villains pursuing Sophia Loren and Gregory Peck from one landmark to the next seldom just take...
...black sheep of the family. At 21, when Napoleon balked at his marriage to a Baltimore heiress named Betsy Patterson, he blithely abandoned the girl-with child-and concluded an alliance with Catherine of Wurttemberg. As King of Westphalia, he employed so many mistresses and staged such lavish entertainments (among them an operetta performed stark naked) that the kingdom went bankrupt within seven years. In 1812 he deserted his troops in Russia, and in 1840 he sold his 20-year-old daughter for several million francs to a notorious Russian sadist who tortured her nightly until the Czar intervened...
What ever happened to the Minoan civilization? Centered on the island of Crete 15 centuries before Christ, the seagoing Minoans once dominated the commerce and influenced the culture of the eastern Mediterranean. Suddenly, their advanced civilization came to a catastrophic end. Great temples and lavish palaces fell into ruin. Traffic halted on a complex system of paved roads; elaborate viaducts crumbled, and most of the residents of Crete died or mysteriously disappeared...
...bluff New York Irishman whose stomach was as expansive as his manner, is enshrined in American folklore as one of the truly great spenders of the Gilded Nineties. He spangled himself with outsize diamonds, usually began a twelve-course meal with a gallon of orange juice, hosted lavish dinners where champagne corks were gathered up in laundry baskets. What is not so well known is that Brady was one of the founding fathers of expense-account entertaining. He shrewdly courted publicity because he felt that it was an asset in his job as a railroad-equipment salesman; most...