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Word: lavishing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Northern Indictment | 10/9/1964 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Pen Is Not the Sword | 10/9/1964 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Sanford J. Ungar, | Title: Travelling In New England With LBJ Grasping Hands and Dozens of Roses | 10/7/1964 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fair, Leisure: What Can The Matter Be? | 8/21/1964 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oil: Vade, Mecom | 7/24/1964 | See Source »

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