Word: lavishing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...merchant- before Bergman found her. "I always had to play femme fatale roles because I looked a little exotic for Sweden. I never looked like a Swedish woman. I had to play sophisticated ladies with low necks and yulery," she explains, fingering imaginary pearls. Bergman concealed her lavish charms. "It's fun to work with him," she says. "We get very involved emotionally for three months; then it's over and we say goodbye." She is now 34 and wants to be a director herself. She has directed three plays so far, and one short film. She could...
...general, jabbed especially at Gulf Italia's vice president and operating head, Prince Nicolo Pignatelli Aragona Cortes, scion of a noble family that claims Pope Innocent XII and Mexico's Conqueror Hernando Cortes in its lineage. Pignatelli seemed an easy target: he graces Roman society's lavish dinner tables, is a jet-set sportsman, and can be tough in business: when his Ragusa field was mechanized, he fired 700 of his 850 Sicilian workers...
Indoors Is Unnerving Too. The most impressive of POW's ten major rein forced concrete buildings is the six-story Buckner, one of the most lavish edi fices ever built by the Army Engineers...
...year, started a one-man campaign against corruption and Communist influence within the company. He stopped all hiring (8,000 new employees were added during the two preceding years), looked into shady dealings of Petrobras executives, twice blocked strikes approved by a Petrobras director, and cracked down sharply on lavish publicity spending. Silva took his evidence to Brazil's President Joao Goulart. When word leaked out, a newspaper article appeared with statements accusing the general himself of engineering a "major underhanded deal" involving the purchase of $200 million worth of oil from "a large petroleum company"-later identified...
...explosion of brilliance, studded from top to bottom with dazzling fluorescent lights that are said to attract most of Monrovia's flies. Because of the uncertainty of the city's public utilities, the mansion has its own emergency power plant, water supply and sewage system. Such lavish accouterments plus some eyebrow-raising financing methods explain why the cost of the vast pile has soared from an original estimate of $2,500,000 to a whopping $20 million...