Word: lavishness
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...innkeeper builds what looks like an unbeatable hand of perks, a rival somewhere raises the stakes. Not long ago, chauffeured Rolls-Royce service to and from the airport, monogrammed 1,000-thread-count bed linens, customized room décor and personal butlers were the last word in lavish amenities...
LORRAINE BRACCO The Sopranos actress's eponymous line of eight ornately labeled wines includes a lavish, fruity 2004 Pinot Grigio from the Italian Alps...
...lavish East Room wedding, Alice married Nicholas Longworth, an Ohio Congressman who shared little with her besides an interest in Republican politics. A drinker and a playboy, Longworth quickly earned his wife's "complete contempt," says Sturm. Alice also grew to resent her do-gooder cousins Franklin and Eleanor, often mocking Eleanor's bucktoothed smile at dinner parties. "Grammy couldn't stand earnestness," Sturm says...
...that's only half the point, for the show relies as much on what is heard - the Martins' reworking of Beatles standards - as what is shown. Love is the most lavish expression of Cirque founder and boss Guy Lalibert?'s latest obsession: to merge the ballet-acrobat-theatrical Cirque style to modern music. He wants Delirium, with its Barnum & Bailey disco format, to fill nightclubs and arenas in large cities. Cirque is planning another Vegas show for 2008: a bio-evocation of Elvis...
...prices have soared for leading modernists like Tyeb Mehta, Ram Kumar and M.F. Husain. Until recently, though, Sher-Gil had been somewhat forgotten amid the excitement. Because her paintings were declared "national treasures" in the 1970s and cannot be taken out of the country, overseas Indians, the most lavish patrons of art, have avoided buying her works. All that changed in March, when an Indian businessman bought Sher-Gil's Village Scene for $1.6 million, the most ever paid for a work of art in India. This massive sale is focusing attention on Sher-Gil, as is a new biography...