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...money spent on the gallons of fake blood and the tons of naked flesh used in the film; the amount of money needed to waste the talents of such fine performers as Malcolm McDowell, Peter O'Toole, Helen Mirren, and Sir John Gielgud; the amount of money squandered on lavish sets that often look less like ancient Rome than the interior of the Hong Kong...
...bankers bearing gifts are trying to circumvent Government regulations that limit competition among financial institutions. The Federal Reserve's Regulation Q has long kept a lid on interest rates that banks or savings and loans can pay. Banks have sometimes attempted to get around that law by giving lavish gifts instead of paying interest. One New York bank, for example, offered an $84,000 Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow to anyone who would deposit $160,000 for eight years. But there were no takers...
...Malibu tribe to a war dance. He has been known to show up at the supermarket in a gorilla suit. Why? Why not? "I guess I'm a ham," he says. However he costumes himself, he knows that he can always cool off by jumping into the lavish Jacuzzi bath and forget everything but his motto, floating on a banner overhead: Vita Celebratio Est (Life Is a Celebration...
...White House to grill the President himself, who has pledged to cooperate, and the questioning may also include his wife Rosalynn. But their most withering inquiries will be aimed at a babble-prone, 43-year-old country boy who would be unworthy of such lavish attention except for one fact over which he has no control: he is the President's brother...
...like) is writing news stories for the inside of the paper. In his "spare" time, a Journal hand is expected to knock out stories for the second front and produce regular A-heds and leders. These front-page projects can take a month or more, and the paper is lavish in its support. Says Jim Drinkhall, an investigative reporter in the San Francisco bureau: "You can spend 40 bucks a day on food and spend six weeks in six or seven cities for one story...