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Last year, when Columbia University acquired a new President, a number of lavish, expensive ceremonies were planned to celebrate the event. The President turned these down, and he allocated the money, which ran into tens of thousands of dollars, to student...
...Sometimes, unexpectedly, in the early morning, I will imagine an extraordinary woman-lush and lavish and lovely-and . . ." Many a man's early-morning fantasy may look quite a bit like Elizabeth Taylor. But few could go on, as did Richard Burton when he saw the latest photograph of Liz: "I will reach out with my hand and find the reality of the dream woman. She exists, and lo and behold, she is alive. She is warm. She responds. She murmurs. She weeps. She is wild. She is dangerous. But sometimes, like this photograph, she will come running...
...There is time for work. And time for love," said Coco Chanel. "That leaves no other time." In the '20s, Chanel filled her off-hours with Arthur ("Boy") Capel, a wealthy English polo player whose lavish gifts of jewels served as the keystones of Coco's astonishing collection, and whose blazer -lent to the designer on a chilly day at the polo grounds-became the source of her famous box jacket. From the Duke of Westminster. Chanel's most renowned amour, came more jewels; these she had copied, setting off the costume-jewelry vogue. With a personal...
...promise of lively jobs, money and women in Toronto. They are, of course, doomed to failure. Their only city acquaintance is an uncle who refuses to recognize them; unable to find anything better, they finally drift to working in a bottling plant. Eighty dollars a week is a lavish salary to Peter and Joey, and they spend whatever they get on drinks and waitresses. When Joey, the more frivolous of the pair, knocks up a girlfriend and decides to get married, he goes on a no-down-payment buying splurge. He is left disconsolate when he and friend Peter...
...Times. As biographies become flabby compendia, so historical movies-with the notable exception of Rossellini's The Rise of Louis XIV -go up in factual pretension while they go down in quality. Darryl Zanuck in Tora! Tora! Tora! spent millions to reproduce historical fact, but sacrificed artistic coherence for lavish commercial packaging. Hughes' Cromwell also fails, though on a smaller scale. But even as a larger financial venture, Cromwell's soupy musical score would probably just have been soupier (kettle drums beating more often as Cromwell opens his mouth), the battle standards ("In God we Trust," "God and Country...