Word: lavishness
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Among several lavish set pieces, the showstopper is a Turkish scene at the end of the first act. Such exotic interludes were a vogue in the 18th century, and Corigliano and Hoffman mock the form with glee. The setting is an outlandish reception at the Turkish embassy, presided over by a 12-ft. foam pasha from whose mail-slot mouth a bass voice emerges. As the sultry singer Samira, mezzo Marilyn Horne reclines lasciviously on a plushy couch and tosses off a florid cavatina and cabaletta to words from an Arabic phrase book ("I am in a valley...
Junior Mark Kaufman (9-6-15), James Lavish (8-2-10) and Martin Leroux (2-10-12) lead the Eli attack...
Second Period: 1, H, Flomenhoft (Mallgrave, McCormack) 18:50. Penalties--1, Y, Lavish (interference) :47; 2, Y, Befekadu (delay of game) 7:18; 3, H, Cohagan (holding) 10:12; 4, Y, Matusovich (hooking) 15:38; 5, Y, Allen (delay of game...
...gets a posh office, a lavish expense allowance, a devoted staff and unlimited postage? Answer: any former Speaker of the House of Representatives. Congress doled out these open-ended perks to departing Speakers back in the 1970s so that they could conclude their "official business." But somehow not one has ever managed to do so. According to figures disclosed last week by the House clerk, U.S. taxpayers will have to cough up $385,577.52 this year for staff members who will keep JIM WRIGHT and TIP O'NEILL comfortable in their home states. Not to mention CARL ALBERT of Oklahoma...
...when he stepped in as the 11th-hour savior of the city's Daily News, whose workers were waging a draining strike against the paper's owners, the Tribune Co. Maxwell luxuriated in his role as an American media king, appearing in ads for the paper and putting on lavish spreads at Washington social functions. The new proprietor pocketed $60 million in exchange for taking on the News and its debt, but the paper still loses money -- between $30 million and $40 million a year, estimates John Morton, a newspaper analyst at Lynch, Jones & Ryan in Washington...