Word: lavishing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...These Women, for all its faults, may well stand as a milestone in the career of Sweden's Ingmar Bergman. It is his first film in color. It is lavish in decor. Though it fails miserably, it is the work of a man who falls flat on his face with impressive aplomb. Behind a transparent disguise as a knockabout farce, it is Bergman's personal indictment of his own critics and public...
Like all drugs, the lavish praise and the secret ecstasies were dangerous. The "Words" of his title became the only realities, and "as a result of discovering the world through language, for a long time I took language for the world." Worse, as he constantly displayed his precocity, Sartre felt more and more that "I was a fake child. I could feel my acts changing into gestures. Playacting robbed me of the world and of human beings. I saw only roles and props." These are key concepts in existentialism today, though Sartre does not belabor the point...
...each stop in the tour, the President used basically the same technique: a prepared speech putting forward one of his major campaign themes (responsibility in government, the capture of the Republican Party by extremists); a lavish dose of praise for the particular state he was visiting; and a standard ending about "the faces I saw on my way into town from the airport this afternoon" and "the problems I must consider when I return to my big desk in that lonely room in the White House tonight...
...show business sector has been hardest hit. Mike Todd Jr.'s America Be Seated closed shortly after the fair opened. Another notable dropout was Wonder World, a glossy musical-extravaganza with a cast of 250 that at times was bigger than its audiences. The Texas pavilion's lavish To Broadway with Love and Dick Button's Ice-Travaganza also folded. The Teatro Espanol's guitarists and flamenco dancers would be a hit in Manhattan; at the fair, business is so slow that the Spanish pavilion has slashed admission from $3 to a ridiculously...
...married son) in a Frenchlike chateau in Houston, owns three cattle ranches and a private zoo of lions, zebras, gazelles and camels. A man who hardly hesitates before he plows $120 million into a Colombian oilfield, he is also known in hotels and restaurants on four continents as a lavish spender and tipper...