In 1967 the rock group Pink Floyd performed the first-ever surround-sound rock concert at “ Games for May ”, a lavish affair at London ’ s Queen Elizabeth Hall where the band debuted its custom-made quadraphonic speaker system.

In 1967, the rock group Pink Floyd performed the first-ever surround sound concert at " Games for May ", a lavish affair at London ’ s Queen Elizabeth Hall where the band debuted its custom-made quadraphonic speaker system.

On the estate of Thomas E. Proctor, now owned by the Massachusetts Audubon Society ( the Ipswich River Wildlife Sanctuary ), Italian immigrant stonemasons constructed the " Rockery "-a lavish rock garden and series of caverns-which still exists.

Each year it hosts more than 350 performances including classical concerts, rock and pop, ballet and opera, tennis, award ceremonies, school and community events, charity performances and lavish banquets.

Daria soon learns about Mark's death on the car radio and drives to her boss Lee's lavish desert home, " a desert Berchtesgaden " set high on a rock outcropping near Phoenix, where she sees three affluent women sunning themselves and chatting by the swimming pool.

* New York American: " A well-balanced supporting cast, a lavish production and marked finesse in treatment combines to make ' Hell's Hinges ' an unusual offering.

The bridge was constructed in 1867 and, at the insistence of Thomas Grissell the landowner, was given lavish architectural treatment.

It was not often that the style could be treated on such a scale of splendor as this ; yet it needed the most lavish expenditure and critical care in order to be seen at its best, and with any poverty of treatment it became hard and formal and almost unlovely.

And yet, while the ascetic treatment of the miniatures obtained so strongly in Byzantine art, at the same time the Oriental sense of splendour shows itself in the brilliancy of much of the coloring and in the lavish employment of gold.

Restrictions imposed by the landowner, Thomas Grissell, meant that vertical ventillation shafts could not be constructed and the tunnel portals were given lavish architectural treatment.

But later he had regained their good-will by more lenient treatment and lavish promises of booty ; they fought with enthusiasm and gained a complete victory.

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.

Manuscripts are often, but not always, given illustrations, often lavish.

The wedding is a lavish ceremony and Paula is given the honorific title of Augusta.

Despite being a state prison, the Bastille retained the other traditional functions of a royal castle, and was used to accommodate visiting dignitaries, hosting some lavish entertainments given by Louis XI and Francis I.

At his death, three years after his retirement from Drury Lane and the stage, he was given a lavish public funeral at Westminster Abbey where he was laid in Poets ' Corner.

His is just one high profile burial that dates from the time of the stones ' erection, but given the lavish nature of the grave his mourners clearly considered him important enough to be buried near to ( if not in the immediate area of ) Stonehenge.

In the Commonwealth realms, the Speech From the Throne is the oration given before the legislature ( whether both chambers of a bicameral parliament or the single chamber of a unicameral parliament ) as part of a lavish affair marking the opening of parliament.

After considerable effort by the palace staff to create a table, chair, and cutlery of appropriate size for him to use, the BFG is given a lavish breakfast, and the Queen forms a plan to capture the other giants.

As the Boleyn family's wealth and influence increased, the couple were given Beaulieu Palace as their chief residence, which George and Jane decorated with a lavish chapel, a tennis court, a bathroom with hot-and-cold running water, imported carpets, mahogany furniture and their own large collection of silverware.

During the reign of Tugh Temur, Yuan court received a third of revenues of the cities of Mawarannahr under Chagatai Khans while Chagatai elites such as Eljigidey, Duwa Temur, Tarmashirin were given lavish presents and sharing in the Yuan Dynasty's patronage of Buddhist temples.

His large schemes and lavish expenditure alarmed the parsimonious directors of the West India Company, and John Maurice, refusing to retain his post unless he were given a free hand, returned to Europe in July 1644.

The Socialist Party criticises what it terms the " lavish " compensation given to the bosses of nationalised industries in the past, and links up the demand for nationalisation to demands for the workers to rely on their own control and management of the nationalised industries, and to the need for the socialist transformation of society itself.

Some were given lavish gifts by admirers, and many were offered periods of vacation in villas on the Italian mainland.

Louis gave her a pair of earrings worth the astonishing sum of eighteen thousand pounds, his most expensive gift to England that year, and certainly more lavish than anything he had ever given Charles's queen.

Sometimes in the earlier series, less lavish Star Prizes ( fitted kitchens and the like ) were given away so as to fit within the IBA's prize limits.

In accordance with New York's high society traditions, Barbara Hutton was given a lavish débutante ball in 1930 on her 18th birthday, where guests from the Astor and Rockefeller families, amongst other elites, were entertained by stars such as Rudy Vallee and Maurice Chevalier.

In early 1989, Madonna signed an endorsement deal with Pepsi, who introduced her new single " Like a Prayer " in the lavish " Make A Wish " commercial — the first time a pop single had debuted in an advertisement and the first time such a commercial was given a worldwide satellite premiere.

The story is in fact given in two near contemporaneous ( 2nd century A. D .) Buddhist histories, the Asokâvadâna and the Divyâvadâna ; the two narratives are almost verbatim the same and very obviously have a common origin. 5 This non-contemporary story ( which surfaces more than three centuries after the alleged facts ) about Pushyamitra ’ s offering money for the heads of Buddhist monks is rendered improbable by external evidence: the well-attested historical fact that he allowed and patronized the construction of monasteries and Buddhist universities in his domains, as well as the still-extant stupa of Sanchi. 6 After Ashoka ’ s lavish sponsorship of Buddhism, it is perfectly possible that Buddhist institutions fell on slightly harder times under the Sungas, but persecution is quite another matter.

Boudica is said by Tacitus to have poisoned herself ; Cassius Dio says Boudica fell ill and died and was given a lavish burial.

Conrad's body was carried in state to Worms, where he was given a lavish funeral and buried at Worms Cathedral by his son Otto.

Financial donations and elaborately wrapped gifts may be given out at lavish parties, weddings, and ceremonies ; sometimes the money is scattered in the air to be grabbed by the others or stuck on to the sweaty foreheads of those dancing.

He directed the construction of new defences for the city, and along with John André, he was one of the planners of the lavish ball, the Mischianza, given in Philadelphia in honor of General Howe.

Potemkin had moved his evermore lavish court to Bender and there were soon more successes against Turkey, including the capture of Batal-Pasha and, on the second attempt, of Kilia on the Danube.

While Moon and Birdboot are understandably extreme examples, Stoppard uses these characters to show how self-aggrandizement can muddle the true purpose of a play through Moon ( who uses the play as an attempt to show off his skills in the brief period where Higgs, the person he is standing in for, is absent ) or how other interests can jeopardize the integrity of a play through Birdboot, who pens lavish reviews as long as there are visually pleasing female leads in the play.

In 1981, having passed the Fast Fiction stall and distribution to Phil Elliott and before starting Escape, Gravett was employed as promotions manager for Pssst !, an attempt to publish a British equivalent of the lavish French Bande Dessinée magazines.

* January 9 – William Tryon, governor of the Royal Colony of North Carolina, signs a contract with architect John Hawks to build Tryon Palace, a lavish Georgian style governor's mansion on the New Bern waterfront.

In the hope of attracting tourists, the officials wanted to build a lavish temple ( Xiangshan Si-熊山寺-" Bear Mountain Temple "), diverting funds from more essential projects.

Charicles eventually accepted a lavish commission to build a tomb for Harpalus ' mistress, and was investigated for corruption.

Potemkin opened up a lavish court at Jassy, the capital of Moldavia, to " winter like a sultan, revel in his mistresses, build his towns, create his regiments — and negotiate peace with Turks ... he was emperor of all he surveyed ".

When asked by Barbara Walters during a 1980s ABC-TV " 20 / 20 " interview from within the mansion if any of the money to build the lavish home came from Giancana, Phyllis denied the innuendo, claiming that she invested heavily in oil when the sisters were at the height of their popularity.

Nonetheless, those who gained the king's favour and the wealthy bourgeoisie continued to renovate existing châteaux or build lavish new ones as their summer residence in the Loire.

William Cawthra died without heirs, and left his fortune to his nieces and nephews, who would use their fortunes to build lavish mansions on Jarvis Street and elsewhere ( the land granted to Joseph Cawthra by the Crown became the site of numerous Cawthra family country homes ), and to elevate themselves further in Toronto society.

John Rylands ' widow, Enriqueta Rylands, had admired the library Champneys had designed for Mansfield College, Oxford and hired him to develop the design on a more lavish scale — The John Rylands Memorial Library in Deansgate, Manchester took nine years to build before opening on January 1, 1900, it is one of Champneys ' finest designs.

Some of this money was used to build a lavish house in Chile.