Word: lavishness
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...parade: Dustin Hoffman, Elizabeth Taylor, Cher, Mick Jagger, Kenneth Branagh, Sandra Bullock and Elton John. None of these worthies were showing completed films; they were on hand simply to bring luster to a festival where voyeurism is a vocation. Gawkers in evening dress could watch La Liz at a lavish dinner to benefit AIDS research, where she auctioned off a Robert Rauschenberg painting with a marine motif. "How about $300,000 for this fish?" she asked...
These dispositions help explain why voters are now being treated to a lavish round of political pandering. The cycle goes something like this. Some aggrieved group begins to complain: gas prices are too high, beef prices too low, liability insurance too burdensome, there's a salmon surplus driving coho prices down. Clinton and Dole rush in with their offers: sell off part of the Strategic Petroleum Reserves (Clinton's offer), repeal the gas tax (Dole's offer). The moment one candidate makes a bid, his rival tops it. The immediate goal on both sides is simply to control the news...
...sobs or lunges here. Gheorghiu's calling card is the home video of the Solti Traviata (London). This is an opera in which the soprano must rule the stage, and she brings a riveting combination of glamour, poignancy and guts to the role and extends it with her lavish response to Solti's bravura reading of the score...
While lacking the lavish amenities of the past, one former Eliot resident says that as recently as three years ago, the house still carried a vestige from its image as home to Harvard's snobbish elite...
...Already, the government has investigated 602 cases and closed 188, netting $5 million in payments. Many of these cases occurred at small- and medium-size firms, companies that are often tempted to raid 401(k) accounts to meet financial crises or to fund frivolous events like hunting trips or lavish lifestyles for executives. Since the 401(k)'s inception in 1979, 22 million workers have invested a total of $880 billion in the government-sponsored program. The government's amnesty announcement will reassure workers that money they set aside for retirement is safe, said Baumohl. The offer is not open...