Word: spendthriftness
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...Uncomfortable. If the Somerset could offer a real "cabaret" atmosphere, that, of course, wouldn't matter-everyone in the room would be equally drunk or at least warmly receptive. But at the Somerset the smoke rises twenty feet before it begins to collect and not even the most spendthrift of boozehounds could compensate for the room's disarming amount of light...
...machine to find the invisible player of his pianola. One of his sons, Colonel Aureliano Buendia, becomes a revolutionary leader who organizes 32 armed uprisings against a distant and corrupt "government." He loses them all, but wins the war-only to lose the peace. Aureliano II is a roistering spendthrift who takes on all comers in eating contests. He falls only once, comatose with turkey, in a four-day duel with a fastidious lady known as "the Elephant...
...they survive, and on what terms with love and life, is the heart of the book and the measure of Woiwode's worldly wisdom. He throws off bit characters-an Indian clerk in the general store, an old farmer down the road -with the sort of spendthrift brilliance that measures an abundant talent. He handles those woods with the care and exactness of a naturalist. In short, at 27, he is already a novelist one can trust. Past blitheness, but not up to bitterness, Woiwode treats life (and death) with unstinting tenderness. He knows the price of love...
Want a share of that swinging, spendthrift teen-age market? Start a magazine. In the first issue, smother the scene. Top off a piece on skydiving with one on motorcycling. Spend an afternoon with Warren Beatty, an evening with Timothy Leary. Run the confessions of a college dropout, along with a few essentials about "the good, grey rebel," Eugene McCarthy. Sprinkle in some pictures of electric dresses. And right in the middle of it all, plant one of those psychedelic fold-out posters. Crazy...
Only in retrospect was the 17th century in Holland seen as the age of Rembrandt. At the time, it was the glittering solidity of a moneyed middle class, the robust freedom of a people unburdened by spendthrift - and the plain cockiness of the most successful seafaring nation in Europe that struck the eye. These are characteristics that Frans Hals pictured with precision...