Word: lavishing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...emotional high-style, emphasizing spectacle with aluminized mylar sheets mirroring the audience, incense burning-away, and bits and pieces of Artaud and Grand Guignol. The set, grotesque caryatids awesomely conceived and executed by Sebastian Melmoth, nonetheless serves little intrinsic function in Ginn's concept, appearing only as so much lavish decoration surrounding the playing area. The costumes and lighting, however, work better, and are superb as only the Loeb can make them...
...proposing the project, however, the President has history on his side. Throughout time, kings, popes and potentates have decreed how they should be remembered. So why should Lyndon Johnson be denied? Vergil was financed by the Emperor Augustus while writing the Aeneid, and repaid his patron with lavish praise of Augustan virtues. Emperor Trajan was so taken by his triumphs, that to satisfy his pride he had 2,500 of his followers' names carved into a 137-ft.-high marble pillar in the Forum at Rome. Alas, the custom has largely fallen into desuetude since Suetonius...
...lavish sets, again remarkably similar to the sets used for the Shaw play, are dull and unoriginal...
...ahead of stockholders'. Fearful of inquisitive bankers, goes one complaint, A. & P. has always shied away from loans and has financed improvements largely out of its own earnings. Manhattan Art Patron Huntington Hartford, one of the grandsons of the founder, charges that the foundation is responsible for a "lavish" pension plan (up to $50,000 a year for top officers) that costs an amount almost equal to 50% of A. & P. profits...
Rather than hand the bird over to the Lampoon, the senior created an intricate and powerful corporation known as Find-a-Bird Inc., promising to hunt down the lbis, around the world, if the Lampoon would agree to a lavish public ceremony upon receiving it back. The senior indicated that if the Lampoon didn't comply, Find-a-Bird might be dissolved to become Melt-a-Bird. When the lbis finally was ready to be returned to the Lampoon, the required celebration was arranged, before the Dartmouth Game at Freedom Square...