Word: lavishness
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...borrowed costumes in the past, each outfit in this year’s production has been specifically made by four dedicated costume designers. Cut from various poly-blend fabrics intended to mimic silks, linens, and satins, the costumes were designed to create an effect onstage that is just as lavish and radiant as the imagined originals while remaining conscious of cost. According to Keun Jung Cho, a costume designer who is also a first-year student at the Graduate School of Design, the flowing robes and bright colors are inspired by both traditional Chinese dance and films like Quentin Tarantino?...
...opened a door and found herself in a classroom that was dimly lit and at least 15°F (8°C) colder than the ones we had been shown. Some of the students wore winter jackets and hats. Earlier that morning, a member of the orchestra arrived late for a lavish breakfast buffet and found a couple of waitresses taking pictures of the mountains of unfinished food. It's been 10 years since the great famine ended, killing an estimated 2 million or more North Koreans, but the waitresses at Alcatraz had never seen a spread quite like the one served...
...Chalk is universally available in the world outside Cambridge, and cheap to boot. Students need only invest their time and skill in order to produce lavish advertisements or political arguments. It invites forms of expression that venture well beyond those of the trusty but limited poster. As a consequence, messages in chalk become more than advertisements. They are transformed into part of our physical landscape, something that manipulates the very skeleton of our campus...
...Seebeck's not kidding about heavy hitters. Among the franchisees is Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani, the world's 14th richest man, with an estimated net worth of $20.1 billion. Not quite as wealthy but rather more flamboyant is Vijay Mallya, known for throwing lavish parties in his home city of Bangalore and for his co-ownership of the Force India Formula One team. The enterprise's big guns aren't fooling: "We want the IPL to be one of the icon brands in the world," says IPL chairman Lalit Modi, "and we are going to push everything that...
...classroom; it was dimly lit and at least "15 degrees colder than the ones we're being shown," she said. The students sat huddled in winter jackets, some wearing hoods or hats. Sadder was the breakfast room at the hotel that morning, just after a complimentary - and lavish - buffet had been served to us. A friend of mine, from the orchestra's delegation, arrived after 9 a.m., when the buffet had closed. As she entered she saw a couple of the waitresses at work. They weren't clearing the mountains of food away; they were taking pictures...