During his managerial career, Anderson was known to heap lavish praise on his ballplayers when talking to the media.

Shot on location in Morocco and New York City by Cinematographer Vittorio Storaro, the production drew media attention before its release for substantial cost overruns on top of a lavish budget, and reports of clashes between director, producer, and cinematographer.

The mansion became famous during the 1970s through media reports of Hefner's lavish parties.

In October 1974, a lavish media party was held there to celebrate the launch of new UK record company Swan Song Records by the band Led Zeppelin.

Ahasuerus, ruler of a massive Persian empire, holds a lavish party, initially for his court and dignitaries and afterwards for all inhabitants of the capital city Shushan.

Later that evening, Capitol Records saluted his achievement of selling 100 million albums in the US with a lavish party at Nashville's Gaylord Entertainment Center.

* Trimalchio's Feast is alluded to in the short story " Toga Party " by John Barth, which was included in The Best American Short Stories 2007, in reference to Tom and Patsy Hardison's lavish toga party.

" The opening night party was a lavish affair, attended by six hundred celebrities who paid homage to the couple.

Corporations and community groups hold lavish events throughout the city for their staff and clients, while bars and pubs erect party tents, the largest of which draws up to 20, 000 people per day.

The end of the Crichton family power in the area was the result of a lavish party.

Over the coming years he is advancing up the party and state ladder: he holds fiery speeches from the National Theater balcony during the Trieste crisis, he socializes with Josip Broz Tito, Ranković and Edvard Kardelj-attending lavish parties and going on foreign state visits with them, and he stands right next to Tito during military parades through downtown Belgrade.

Meanwhile, Fouquet, the Superintendent of Finance, is throwing a lavish party for Louis at Vaux.

He seems to improve his cooking skills over the series, cooking a lavish cake for Nibbler's birthday party and beating Elzar for the title of Iron Cook ( though he uses a potion called " The Essence of Pure Flavor ," consisting of water and a generous portion of LSD to make the judges hallucinate that his food tastes good ).

They divorced in 2011 on amicable terms celebrating their divorce with a lavish " divorce party.

The comedy is based on a fish out of water premise, in which a bungling Indian actor accidentally gets invited to a lavish Hollywood dinner party and " makes terrible mistakes based upon ignorance of Western ways.

When her first novel, The Life of Harriot Stuart, Written by Herself, appeared, Johnson threw a lavish party for Lennox, with a laurel wreath and an apple pie that contained bay leaf.

Rothman's 2008 re-election campaign raised eyebrows when it spent $ 1. 3 million in a race against a little-known, poorly funded Republican challenger, including outlays of $ 59, 000 in campaign funds to buy outright a hybrid SUV and $ 15, 000 for a lavish party at the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver.

At worst, it suggests a documentary of its own lavish wrap party ".

The Centauri celebrate with a lavish party, commemorating the victory of the Centauri over the other sentient life on their world, the Xon.

When the book was initially published, it was not revealed that it was a work of fiction, and some were duped by the hoax ; it was launched at a lavish party, with excerpts read by David Bowie ( who was in on the joke ), and a number of prominent members of the art world claimed to remember the artist.

In July 2006, Mirvish celebrated his 92nd birthday with a lavish party at Honest Ed's.

After the war ended, New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey agreed to Luciano's pardon on the condition that he never be allowed back into the U. S. In February 1946, after a lavish farewell party on the ocean liner, Luciano sailed back to Italy.

As a result of these changes, in 1990, JATE could occupy the county headquarters of that party, a lavish seven-storey building ; which now houses the Financing Office and parts of the Faculty of Law.

He sets out to woo rich and powerful investors by hosting a lavish party, and finds an appropriate investment vehicle when he is approached by a young engineer, Paul Montague, and his American partner, Hamilton K. Fisker, to invest in the construction of a new railway line running from Salt Lake City to Veracruz, Mexico.

* May 7-Chicago Outfit hitmen Albert Anselmi and John Scalise, two of the men suspected in the murder of North Side Gang leader Dean O ' Banion and fellow mob boss Joseph " Hop Toad " Giunta, the current Unione Siculiana President are all killed during a lavish party held at Al Capone's residence.

On 2 September they were received by Fitzwilliam at Wentworth House for a lavish party, with 40, 000 people enjoying a festival in the estate.

That night, Garak prepares to put his plan into effect at a lavish party thrown for Kira by her counterpart.

They were married at a lavish ceremony which was duly recorded in Parvenu and all other magazines and newspapers, and then they honeymooned in Bermuda.

The money was invested in a government bond which provided if not a lavish then certainly a comfortable income which allowed the Pascal family to move to, and enjoy, Paris.

According to Tacitus in his Annals, Boudica poisoned herself, though in the Agricola which was written almost twenty years prior he mentions nothing of suicide and attributes the end of the revolt to socordia (" indolence "); Dio says she fell sick and died and then was given a lavish burial ; though this may be a convenient way to remove her from the story.

The financial burden within the peninsula was on the backs of the peasant class while the nobility enjoyed an increasingly lavish lifestyle.

Due to the threat of war, plans for a lavish museum were never implemented, but once the war was over it was possible to construct the relatively understated but well-lit modern exhibition extension, opened in 1977, that now houses much of the collection.

A lavish temple called the Elagabalium was built on the east face of the Palatine Hill to house Elagabal, who was represented by a black conical meteorite from Emesa.

Isidore of Miletus and Anthemius of Tralles originally planned on a main hall of the Hagia Sophia that measured 230 feet by 250 feet, making it the largest church in Constantinople, but the original dome was nearly 20 feet lower than it was constructed, “ Justinian suppressed these riots and took the opportunity of marking his victory by erecting in 532-7 the new Hagia Sophia, one of the largest, most lavish, and most expensive buildings of all time .” Although Isidore of Miletus and Anthemius of Tralles were not formally educated in architecture, they were scientists that could organize the logistics of drawing thousands of laborers and unprecedented loads of rare raw materials from around the Roman Empire to create the Hagia Sophia for Emperor Justinian I.

The lavish, big-budget production failed to find an audience and was canceled after 13 weeks.

The construction of such lavish mausolea was banned by decree in 317 BC, following which only small columns or inscribed square marble blocks were permitted as grave stones.

Kenilworth was also the scene of the removal of Edward II from the English throne, the French insult to Henry V in 1414 ( said by John Strecche to have encouraged the Agincourt campaign ), and the Earl of Leicester's lavish reception of Elizabeth I in 1575.

At the same time, the French masque was gaining a firm hold at the English Court, with even more lavish splendour and highly realistic scenery than had been seen before.

Unlike the Cistercian Benedict XII, Clement VI was devoted to lavish living and the treasury which he inherited made that lifestyle possible.

He was neither corrupt nor did he make a lavish display of his power or status.

The Easter court was a lavish event, and a large amount of money was spent on the event itself, clothes and gifts.

Stephen was also rapidly running out of money: Henry's considerable treasury had been emptied by 1138 due to the costs of running Stephen's more lavish court, and the need to raise and maintain his mercenary armies fighting in England and Normandy.

Reigning alone, Caracalla was noted for lavish bribes to the legionaries and unprecedented cruelty, authorizing numerous assassinations of perceived enemies and rivals.

Architects who were renowned for their constructions using the style include Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli, an Italian architect who worked in Russia and who was noted for his lavish and opulent works, Philip de Lange, who worked in both Danish and Dutch Rococo architecture, or Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann, who worked in the late Baroque style and who contributed to the reconstruction of the city of Dresden, in Germany.

Leo X was also lavish in charity: retirement homes, hospitals, convents, discharged soldiers, pilgrims, poor students, exiles, cripples and the sick, unfortunates of every description were generously remembered, and more than 6, 000 ducats were annually distributed in alms.

Kemble's productions made use of lavish spectacle and scenery ; one critic noted that during the bedroom scene, the bed was so large that Jachimo all but needed a ladder to view Imogen in her sleep.