Word: lavishness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Horsemeat and Pink Water. The Berliner eats about as well as the average Parisian ate last November: enough to keep from starving, not enough to satisfy his hunger. The great difference is that the Berliner with plenty of money-and there are many of them-cannot buy the lavish black-market meals the Parisian could. A typical black meal comprises two square inches of horsemeat sausage, some potatoes and beets, two glasses of pink flavored water. Cost: five dollars...
...story is like a silly but lovable old friend who suddenly turns up after long absence with an expensive new wardrobe and a novel line of chatter. A lavish Technicolor production, and deadpan acting by the principal players, give the nostalgic old fable a simpleminded freshness and charm...
...remained an oasis of pleasurable chance in Europe's desert of desperate chances. The wheels were spinning now. True, for U.S. soldiers redeploying from the Riviera, Monte Carlo was out of bounds. True, there were no Britons, Germans, Russians, Italians or Latin Americans, no glittering titles, no lavish profligates. Gambling's heroic days were gone: the days when the Princess Suvarov (descendant of Russia's famed general) assaulted the bank at Monte Carlo for a solid month and left it with a daily deficit; the days when German Crown Prince Wilhelm won 2,000,000 francs...
...blackfaced Al Jolson; Anne Brown's superb soprano raised again in the music of Porgy and Bess; and The Man I Love given an added pinch of pepper by Hazel Scott's post-graduate left hand are only a few of the courses served up in this lavish Gershwin feast. For dessert and liqueur there is a spine-tingling performance of the Rhapsody in Blue, arranged, conducted and played by three members of the original priesthood-Ferde Grofé, Paul Whiteman and Levant...
...really lavish aid-millions of tons and billions of dollars worth of supplies. How much had China...