Word: sumptuously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lebanese banking has faltered. Many billionaire sheiks, whose deposits had helped to make Beirut the banking capital of the Middle East, moved their riches elsewhere. Tourist trade, the other principal prop of Lebanon's economy, all but vanished with the Middle East war. Now, in once bustling Beirut, sumptuous hotels are almost empty, restaurants deserted, harbor-import traffic slow, nightclubs closed, stores shuttered for lack of customers...
...been a happy one, had they not received the vast, ramshackle Russian Empire as a wedding present. His father, Czar Alexander, died at 49, and carefree Nicky, who had expected that papa had another 20 years of healthy despotism ahead, had to fill his big boots. Mourning marred the sumptuous Orthodox wedding, and worse was to come. At war with Japan in 1905, Nicky sent the Russian Baltic battle fleet lum bering round the world, but it was sunk in 45 minutes at Tsushima. What Nicky called the "monkeys" (he had never forgiven that slice on the scalp) had defeated...
...stage was bare, the costumes were rehearsal-type togs in grey, white and black. "If you combine sumptuous sets and costumes with Mahler," explains MacMillan, "you get something like jam on jam." A tenor and a mezzo-soprano sang the vocal parts from opposite sides of the proscenium, while onstage dancers representing such allegorical figures as Youth, Beauty and Everyman traced a melange of MacMillan movements that seemed to draw equally on classical, modern and Chinese dance styles...
Balanchine's polished New York City Ballet troupe gave the untitled work its premiere last week at Lincoln Center, and it was the most sumptuous and imaginative ballet in years. Typical of Balanchine, there was no story, but the way he molded the ebb and flow of dancing figures was as riveting as any narrative. Each jewel refracted a side of the Balanchine style; together, they showed a spectrum of radiance...
...reasonably amusing and bawdy cartoons, some dirty jokes, and discussions by sociologists and theologians. Above all, in vivid color and enthusiastic text, the ultimate life of material and sensual pleasure is abundantly demonstrated for some imaginary man about town. Latest male fashions are on display; so are sleek cars, sumptuous stereo sets and fine wines and foods, with instruction on when, how and to whom to serve them. There is always the suggestion that sex is part of the successful life, that good-looking women are status symbols. Says Paul Gebhard, executive director of Indiana University's Kinsey-founded Institute...