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Word: lavishing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Monday, December 2 HOLLYWOOD AND THE STARS (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). A look at the lavish musicals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Nov. 29, 1963 | 11/29/1963 | See Source »

...lavish feast described by Petronius in a fragment of the Satyricon, a penetrating report of social life in the days of Nero. Trimalchio, the host, was a wealthy freedman with more farms "than a kite could flap over," and so many slaves that "not one in ten has ever seen his master...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 8, 1963 | 11/8/1963 | See Source »

...Metropolitan Opera had two new productions ready to greet the opening of its 79th season last week-a lavish but disappointing Aïda and a modest Manon. Aïda succeeded in sharing some of the opening night glitter with its $50-a-seat audience, but it was plagued by the galloping vulgarity that now and then attacks the Met's production staff. Manon appeared with a blush three nights later and, despite troubles of its own, triumphed quietly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Opera: The Schippers Festival | 10/25/1963 | See Source »

...railroads are now willing to lavish funds on this lucrative freight operation. Last week in Chicago, the Chicago & Northwestern Railway dedicated its new Proviso Piggyback Plaza, a 20-acre, twelve-track staging point for road trailers moving by train. This week the Baltimore & Ohio is completing an $11 million project in which 18 tunnels are being enlarged, or are being bypassed altogether, to clear the way for piggy back trains moving west. The Southern is busy on a similar $35 million program on the line between Cincinnati and Chattanooga...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Railroads: A Going Thing | 10/25/1963 | See Source »

Nikolai Gogol's The Inspector General is a funny and inventive play. It includes all sorts of comic devices, from the broadest of slapstick to sly, finely-timed lines. The Harvard Dramatic Club production, which opened the Loeb season last night, adds a few more touches; lavish make-up (especially emphasizing Gogol's nose fixation) and underlings with Brooklyn accents. The result is an often hilarious evening, which suffers only occasionally from tedious repetition of obvious jokes...

Author: By Steven V. Roberts, | Title: The Inspector General | 10/25/1963 | See Source »

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