Word: lavishness
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...Dems celebrated loudly at the July 31 House passage--and anticipated Senate passage--of a measure that forces lawmakers at least to begin cleaning up shop. It makes them disclose earmarks, curbs corporate-paid gifts and travel, ends the lavish parties lobbyists throw "in honor" of politicians and requires quarterly reports on the money lobbyists raise for politicians, known as bundling...
Perhaps so. But many of the three dozen journalists accompanying Edwards couldn't seem to get those snipping shears off their minds. Nearly every news story about the poverty tour made reference to Edwards' lavish coif by way of calling into question the candidate's ability to relate to low-income Americans...
...PHC’s fundraising efforts consisted of much more than letters and phone calls. Indeed, it became a sustained multimedia promotional campaign that sought to reach Harvard alumni all over the country though publications, lavish dinners, and the radio and television airwaves...
...good movie. But it is. The mix of facts and faces, outrage and sympathy, the telling anecdote and the surreal observation showcases Moore's savviness. So do his visits to Canada, Britain, France and, spectacularly, Cuba. Hearing Congressional testimony that detainees at Guantánamo are getting lavish medical attention, Moore sails to the base, taking with him volunteer rescue workers from the World Trade Center site who suffered respiratory and other diseases and said their plans did not cover the all treatment they needed. When their request to receive treatment at the base is denied, they go to Havana...
...Michael Bennett's original production was smart, lavish and cutting. During the "Who's That Woman?" number, in which the aging chorines come to terms with the difference between the 20- and 50-year-old selves, Bennett lowered a stage-wide mirror that caught both the middle-aged actresses on stage and the middle-aged audience, staring at the women and sharing their discomfort. In the second act, the animosities festering in the two main couples explodes into rancorous fantasy in the faux-Ziegfeld "Loveland" section, and Bennett gave Sondheim's comic-poignant torch songs and novelty numbers a splendor...