It's all very funny, until you realize your taxes are funding all these laughable extravaganzas — and these extravaganzas might function as a smoke screen for Pruitt's threats to the environment.
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Dublin is not a city known for its fashion extravaganzas.
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So don't expect department stores to ditch their seasonal window extravaganzas anytime soon.
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Increasingly, though, the big fashion houses have mounted shows that read as extravaganzas.
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Here's a rundown of who is booked — and who isn't — for Mr. Trump's inaugural extravaganzas.
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Most of premium cable's best series are incomprehensible minefields because they're sci-fi and fantasy extravaganzas.
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The yacht show is also where the billionaire yacht owners throw their flashy after-party extravaganzas.
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These were the first mega-musicals; special-effect-studded extravaganzas integrating new technology, lighting and sound systems.
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Car-show extravaganzas cost millions of euros as brands, especially luxury nameplates, strive to outshine one another.
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No wonder most houses continue to plow serious money into extravaganzas to showcase their latest resort collections.
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These extravaganzas aim for maximum sensory impact and require a high tolerance for mingling with masses of people.
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Except at pretentious costume extravaganzas like the annual Met Ball, people no longer aspire to dress like that.
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ORCHIDS, MUMS AND TOY TRAINS Mr. Long initiated seasonal floral extravaganzas for the conservatory and the garden grounds.
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Many average Americans apparently have a hard time viewing these extravaganzas and figuring out how they fit in.
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Zac Posen is a designer known for dressing celebrities like Reese Witherspoon and Claire Danes in fantastical Cinderella extravaganzas.
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Like previous Hirst extravaganzas, this project is being rolled out with the same hypervigilant level of control and fanfare.
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In between the two matrimonial extravaganzas, The Jonas Brothers officially reunited and released their first studio album in ten years.
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In addition to Gunter's Universe, Thompson now also hosts social movie nights, karaoke, halloween extravaganzas, and Christmas celebrations for VR Chat.
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In the process, he reached out to Berlin's diverse communities and mounted ambitious educational extravaganzas, like the Be Phil amateur orchestra.
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Today, most movies and even television are widescreen extravaganzas, designed to fill up the space on modern screens and high-definition televisions.
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The collaborators looked to masters like Bob Fosse and Busby Berkeley, drawing particular inspiration from Esther Williams extravaganzas with scads of performers.
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It follows Cirque du Soleil extravaganzas focused on the life and careers of music artists such as the Beatles and Michael Jackson.
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Mr. Counts has staged some extravaganzas in the past, but here he keeps things restrained, using a relatively small cast of actors.
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It is what gives these biennial extravaganzas, which stage nearly identical competitions in a different part of the world, their distinctive feel.
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Centers compete with one another by advertising stays at plush hotels, shopping extravaganzas in nearby malls, and state-of-the-art hospitals.
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The state Chamber of Commerce's Walk to Washington on Thursday is one of the biggest annual networking extravaganzas in New Jersey politics.
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Last year when our oldest daughter was one-and-a-half, we didn&apost partake in the Santa and gift-giving extravaganzas.
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For much of the year, the stadiums and arenas are competing for concerts, ice skating performances, circuses, wrestling extravaganzas and other events.
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Ball gowns in point d'esprit and satin were singed and les smokings were, literally, smoked; a pair of waltzing extravaganzas trailed vaporous wisps.
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They have patiently crafted a cinematic universe (MCU) where individual superheroes get their own films but are then brought together for "Avengers" extravaganzas.
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Three years of Psycho California were enough; now, it's Sin City's turn to lay claim to one of America's greatest heavy music extravaganzas.
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AT A LOCAL BAR: Yes, along with the hype and pomp comes debate-watching extravaganzas like you might find for the Super Bowl.
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FILM FORUM JR.: 'THE RED BALLOON' AND 'A DOG'S LIFE' (Sunday) Some of the greatest films for children aren't recent computer-generated extravaganzas.
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It is called "The Band's Visit," and its undeniable allure is not of the hard-charging, brightly blaring sort common to box-office extravaganzas.
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And unlike the previous multinight, 20-person speed-dating extravaganzas, this time's a one-night-only affair, mostly thanks to its higher qualifying thresholds.
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It had powerful lawyers and advisers on its payroll, including former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, who appeared at several of the company's extravaganzas.
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Now known for halftime extravaganzas featuring such pop stars as Michael Jackson, the Rolling Stones, U353 and Beyonce, the inaugural show operated on another level.
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It's a different vision for snowboarding than Shaun White's Air+Style extravaganzas, but one that seems no less important to the future of the sport.
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Among New York's many commercial galleries, there are group shows and then there are group shows, veritable extravaganzas that give the genre all they've got.
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More studios are producing their own red carpet extravaganzas, hiring battalions of brand-friendly hosts to market the studio's offerings and control social media messaging.
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As these extravaganzas go, "Manus x Machina" is exceptional, its clarity and serenity distinguishing it from quite a few of its predecessors at the Costume Institute.
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There's a rift opening in New York Fashion Week, with big blowout extravaganzas facing off against quieter, more traditional collections; hashtag hoo-has against analogue outreach.
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He was among the select group of executives who presented new models at the extravaganzas that Volkswagen staged before major motor shows in Frankfurt and elsewhere.
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She had few qualms about abandoning the cocktail-fueled chatter and red-carpet extravaganzas for the verdant seclusion of a 205-acre horse farm in Virginia.
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INFLUENCERS Although shoppers and fashion fans can often view the catwalk extravaganzas online, fashion weeks remain the equivalent of a trade show for luxury goods companies.
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All along, Mr. Goldsmith was inspiring his sales force by turning the company's routine sales meetings into theatrical extravaganzas, using Broadway singers and dancers as models.
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The surreal multimillion-dollar extravaganzas staged each season in Milan by Philipp Plein, the German king of nouveau riche bling, can make Wonderland look like a cornfield.
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When she appeared at the annual Tap Extravaganzas honoring National Tap Dance Day, it was usually with the Dancing Ladies, her own chorus line of young women.
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Disney, of course, has already unearthed plenty of gold from its vaults, reviving and remaking various family properties, which has included transforming animated classics into live-action extravaganzas.
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There were television and movie appearances, major roles in pro wrestling extravaganzas, and party after party where Gronk always seemed to materialize in character as the eternal goofball.
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They are glossy, big-budget extravaganzas stuffed with elements to hook global audiences: extreme stunts, Alec Baldwin as a talking infant, boundary-pushing visual effects, song and dance.
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While August is a slow time for studio movies, indies get to shine all the brighter without the shadows of all those $218 million CG extravaganzas looming over them.
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"The 'show business' atmosphere of the most glamorous art auctions has made them media events, gaveling extravaganzas at which television cameras record every fall of the hammer," Reif wrote.
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One promo emphasizes blockbusters like "Wonder Woman" — the opposite of the current best picture contenders, which are mostly art films — and plays up stage extravaganzas mounted at Oscars past.
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In past years, the Volkswagen extravaganzas have featured laser light shows, a parade of new car models, and surprise appearances by pop stars like Pink or the Pet Shop Boys.
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At Mr. Basso's fashion extravaganzas over the years, Diane Sawyer might have been seen rubbing shoulders with Ivana Trump, Martha Stewart spied sitting flank to flank alongside Mary J. Blige.
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According to Mr. Cotter-Sparrow, costumed disco extravaganzas like the one in Prospect Park in 1980 gave way to today's sometimes grueling professional races in which world-class athletes compete.
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These annual nerd pilgrimages have grown over the last few decades from small gathering of devoted comics fans into massive entertainment extravaganzas, the physical manifestation of geek culture gone mainstream.
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Whether you're hitting up some (very) early holiday extravaganzas or just want to take your winter wardrobe up a few notches, there's an eye-catching patterned piece in the selection ahead.
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Lomax's son, Alan, carried on his work, with surveys of the folk music of Spain and Italy, including children's songs in dirt-poor Extremadura and falsetto extravaganzas by dockers in Genoa.
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Then on with the show, which included testimonials from advertisers, cameos from stars including Tiffany Haddish and Alicia Keys, and musical extravaganzas featuring the likes of Daddy Yankee and Dua Lipa.
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What was once an afternoon away from the office to break bread and participate in team bonding activities (trust fall, anyone?), corporate retreats have since ballooned into multi-day offsite extravaganzas.
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Millions of Americans have continued to flock to their TVs during prime-time hours to catch extravaganzas like the Olympic Games, the Super Bowl or the Academy Awards as they happen.
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Having been behind the camera for over 60 years, he's seen the industry change radically, from the emergence of ready-to-wear in the '60s to the Insta-bait extravaganzas of today.
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After years of false starts, comic-dom's most celebrated female character is finally getting the solo movie she's long deserved — in a milieu dominated by male superheroes and testosterone-fueled CGI extravaganzas.
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Those are both big, spectacular extravaganzas that require their audiences to come to the theater for two consecutive evenings to see the whole show, and they are the talk of the season.
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From music hall through rock 'n' roll to Top of the Pops and televised extravaganzas such as Live Aid, one of pop's abiding functions has been to serve as common cultural currency.
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They are extravaganzas of stuff, colorful and tactile, mostly society's castoffs recycled into forms that expose false binaries, like high versus low, form versus function, masculine versus feminine and art versus craft.
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He mounted ambitious educational extravaganzas, broadened its repertoire, reached out to Berlin's diverse communities, and asked its musicians to embrace a different vision of what it means to play in an orchestra.
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The event, called "Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA," is the latest of three successive multi-venue extravaganzas in and around this city, spaced several years apart, and bankrolled by the Getty Foundation.
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Last March, Diablo creator David Brevik posted the original eight-page pitch document from 1994, including its key message of "reinvigorating" gaming at a time when many developers substituted "gameplay with multimedia extravaganzas."
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It was only last year that Miuccia Prada joined the relatively small group of brands (Dior, Chanel, Louis Vuitton, Gucci) that hold between-season runway extravaganzas in far-flung cities of their choice.
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Amazon promised a one-day sales event for the site's Prime subscribers that would be "one of the biggest deals extravaganzas in the world," according to then vice president of Amazon Prime, Greg Greeley.
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In line with his existing oeuvre of glossy Bollywood extravaganzas like "Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham …" (2001) and "Ae Dil Hai Mushkil" (2016), Johar's ghost story stars a preternaturally attractive married couple and a palatial estate.
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Live TV versions of "Hairspray" and more are in the pipeline, and Mr. Kail's production certainly raised the bar in terms of how much razzle-dazzle, innovation and star power these extravaganzas will need to have.
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For much of the year when the teams are not playing, the venues compete for concerts, circuses, tractor pulls, wrestling extravaganzas and other events, all of which bring revenue necessary to make the venues economically viable.
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Department stores like Bendel, with its Street of Shops, and Bloomingdale's, with its themed extravaganzas, used to offer wares as an Indian bazaar does: a sensory overload of artisanal objects, along with pieces by upcoming designers.
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Since the Gezi Park protests of 2013, even parks have become off-limits for large gatherings, except for the state-sanctioned, nationalistic extravaganzas like those sponsored by the government every night after the attempted military coup.
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These floral extravaganzas were joyous, Easter-hued creations loaded with whatever was showiest: Stargazer lilies, lilacs, hothouse roses, birds of paradise, explosive yellow forsythia, fragrant eucalyptus shoots and skyscraping, arthritic-seeming branches, often all at once.
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Clearly no expense has been spared in making almost every scene spectacular, and cinematographer Dan Mindel has here surpassed his work on The Force Awakens and numerous other special effects extravaganzas with his often striking images.
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But like with Nerf's more traditional blasters that use foam darts, you'll be able to add additional Nitro foam cars to your stunt extravaganzas using refill packs that include six cars for $10, or three for $6.
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But as MTV began to retreat from playing videos in the early 2000s, major-label budgets set aside for music videos shrank — gone were the Hype Williams extravaganzas, the multimillion-dollar Michael Jackson and Madonna event videos.
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This week in Soissons, a somnolent provincial town far from the gaudy cast-of-thousands extravaganzas of the campaign, Ms. Le Pen was greeted by a few dozen somber National Front activists in a drab meeting hall.
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While there doesn't seem to be any record of the moment when wedding hookups became a thing, professional bridesmaid (yes, that's a real thing) Jen Glantz theorizes that wedding hookup culture came with the rise of wedding extravaganzas.
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Every McQueen show when he was alive, many Chanel shows, lots of Isaac Mizrahi, and Todd Oldham shows, most Marc Jacobs shows, not to mention the Marc for Vuitton extravaganzas have been true exercises in magic and fantasy.
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From cocktail parties to formal brunches, casual potlucks to NYE extravaganzas, the number of events alone — all of which mandate a different, very specific dress code — is enough to stump even the most creative of dressers, us included.
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That's the effect of "Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology," the latest of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's annual fashion extravaganzas from its Costume Institute, and one distinguished by a lack of Met Gala-style hoopla.
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Eschewing the over-the-top set extravaganzas of recent seasons (the supermarket, the airplane hangar, the casino), Mr. Lagerfeld instead reconstituted a salon of old, from the cream carpet to the gold ballroom chairs, mirrored pillars and beige walls.
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At some point, Calvin Klein could return to the runway in a different form, à la Tommy Hilfiger, also owned by PVH, which has been hosting consumer-facing, social media friendly #TOMMYNOW extravaganzas at fashion weeks around the world.
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The films on this list range from Hollywood musical extravaganzas like the upcoming Elton John movie, Rocketman, to small, independent movies about historical figures that aren't quite so well-known, like Valerie Solanas, the subject of I Shot Andy Warhol.
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However, the Brooklyn Public Library and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy are on a mission to make late-night philosophic investigation exciting and social with the series of annual, 228-hour extravaganzas, A Night of Philosophy and Ideas.
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In 1998, the top 03 grossing movies of the year included an Oscar-nominated war epic ("Saving Private Ryan"), three comedies, a couple of science-fiction extravaganzas ("Armageddon"), the comedic drama "Patch Adams" and a smattering of family films ("Dr. Doolittle").
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It was just the kind of thing that distinguished Mr. Rattle's pathbreaking tenure, in which he got the Philharmonic to play dance extravaganzas starring schoolchildren, conducted Berlin school orchestras at the Philharmonie and generally tried to open things up a bit.
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Forty-one musicians, dancers and singers appeared throughout the two-hour-plus show, which came with the same wardrobe changes as any of Madonna's large-scale extravaganzas (one, before "Vogue," was executed before the audience, shielded by a dressing table).
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Because that person will be asking for more money in terms of ways to network or extravaganzas or conferences that they can use to help promote and all they're doing is recycling the same sales techniques that they talked before.
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Taking the axiom "you had to be there" literally, immersive theater productions — the multidisciplinary genre includes artful extravaganzas like "Sleep No More" as well as more raucous fare like "Drunk Shakespeare" — are resurrecting bygone chapters in gay history this spring.
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And someone has got to pay for extravaganzas like the one in Allapattah, for which roughly two thousand invited locals turned up in their tropical glad rags, joined by a raft of jet-lagged fashion journalists flown in at corporate expense.
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But back home, Madison Avenue ruthlessly siphoned breakdancing's cool—using it to sell McDonald's and Mountain Dew, and even to present a B-Boy parade on a nationally televised Kennedy Center dance extravaganzas before Ronald "I Got It 23 Cheap" Reagan.
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Walking around and looking at the faces of eager young Fortnite fans who must have felt like they were walking into the video game itself was enough to illustrate why Epic spends the money it does to host these real-world extravaganzas.
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I'm honored that you'd like to tap into my experience at one of SXSW's many brand extravaganzas, but I'm sad to report that the vibe wasn't much different than the one you'd feel at any other upper-echelon company affair this week.
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Minor disruptions aside, analysts of the longstanding alliance between the United States and Japan say that Mr. Abe chose shrewdly in extending the sumo invitation to Mr. Trump, who for decades appeared on television in the United States at professional wrestling extravaganzas.
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The Trump administration provides its opponents, and even its friends, with daily extravaganzas of legitimate outrage, moral and political: breaking up migrant families; escalating needless trade wars; alienating historic allies while kowtowing to pathological dictators — and that's just the last few weeks.
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The cruise extravaganzas have become social media phenomena, designed to resonate as much with those viewing on "the other side of the planet" as with those on the front row, and I think it's useful for a critic to understand how that works.
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But the stories that mattered most — even the biggest popcorn extravaganzas of them all — were so often about what it meant to see your community erode from under you, to realize you lived in an oppressive place, and to find strength in numbers.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Why, you might ask, does a city with one of the world's highest concentrations of contemporary art galleries also need to host seasonal extravaganzas where hundreds more galleries pour into the city to share their wares?
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We've been following their upward trajectories for some time, through collaborations with Jamie xx, to pioneering VR gallery show extravaganzas, out-of-body experiences, and more, and recently checked in with them to hear what kind of magic is in store for 2016.
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For a generation of artistically ambitious filmmakers, Netflix distribution may seem like their best option in an era when small movies struggle to get seen, mid-sized movies struggle to get made at all, and theatrical moviegoing increasingly belongs to big-budget special-effects extravaganzas.
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Gamers that want to get paid can't use profanity, can't use hate speech and advertisers have a list of games that they don't want their products to be associated with (so no ultra-violent nazi-killing fantasy extravaganzas… which means I'm not eligible for payouts).
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Mr. Padilha, the Brazilian director of the "Elite Squad" movies, the "RoboCop" reboot and the superb documentary "Bus 174," balances some of the pomp and stiffness of those old made-for-TV extravaganzas with the lean, politically nuanced objectivity of recent films about '70s terrorism.
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To the Editor: Presenting America's dominant military might by means of a military parade like those Red Square extravaganzas in the Soviet Union or those goose-stepping displays of power by Hitler would only emphasize the bullying by this country and its current president.
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Paris Fifty years after founding his namesake label, Jean Paul Gaultier bid goodbye to the runways with a spectacular show that harkened back to the glory days of the '80s and '90s, when catwalk extravaganzas were as much about theater as they were about fashion.
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After holding immersive Tommy Now extravaganzas from New York to Los Angeles, London and Shanghai, Tommy Hilfiger rolled into Paris on Saturday night to be host of a runway show in the global capital of fashion for the first time in his five-decade career.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Fans of the Olympics can expect the spirit of the Games to remain aflame all year round, not just during the sporting extravaganzas, the man now responsible for broadcasting both the Summer and Winter events to hundreds of millions of viewers across Europe told Reuters.
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In ATX, Ms. McFarland and Ms. Gipson sought to split the difference between industry events like the annual Upfronts, in which networks present new shows to advertisers, and sprawling fan extravaganzas like Comic-Con, but with the mingling and general summer-camp feel of many film conferences.
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There's a Catch-22 to these special-counsel extravaganzas: In order to be credible, they must be thorough, but in order to be thorough, they risk becoming unwieldy, appearing indiscriminate and taxing the patience and trust of voters to the point where they numbly tune out.
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Set at a New York show palace that is about to be torn down, where former stars and chorines from Ziegfeld-style extravaganzas gather for one last gaudy night of reminiscence and performance, "Follies" is a hymn to musicals past and lives that were never fulfilled.
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This year, television has produced more than its share of high-end mysteries that fizzled out ("The Night Of"); promising adventures that got hamburger-helpered into something inedible (half the Netflix and Amazon originals); and cinematic extravaganzas that fall short of their own ambitions ("Westworld," sadly).
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At the press preview, the curators explained that they decided to display the works in this fashion because they wanted to get away from the "white box" and approximate the free-for-all hangings typical of East Village galleries and countercultural extravaganzas like The Times Square Show (1980).
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Fate of the Furious largely eschews the martial arts that were a staple of the past few films – which is a shame, since the few fistfights it does have are more energetically shot and staged than the explosive, CG-heavy extravaganzas that are the meat of this movie.
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Highlights over the last nine days of Paris fashion week - which closes a month of shows that ran through New York, London and Milan - included the catwalk extravaganzas at Kering's Saint Laurent, which showcased disco-worthy glow-in-the-dark dresses on a runway under the Eiffel Tower.
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Tortillas, cheese, some leftover roast turkey from what seems like the 900th bird tested this season in advance of the Thanksgiving extravaganzas that Cooking has planned for you next month, some quick-made tomatillo salsa: It could all make for a delicious dinner at the start of the week.
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A supporting cast and an ensemble of men and women appear as entertainers in a Sydney nightclub (led by Darius Harper as a commanding Miss Understanding), as townspeople in various locales along the way, and as chorus members who materialize miraculously to turn simple songs into fabulous extravaganzas.
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"I'm talking about these multi-day-up extravaganzas, where investors can't buy enough shares in one session after a positive event so they keep coming back, day after day after day, to get their full positions on, no matter how much the stock runs in the interim," Cramer said.
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BPM has made a name for itself as a club-centric event, more Ibiza-on-rumspringa than Coachella, so to host the headline showcases––Diynamic, Paradise, Life and Death, and the two Ya'ah Muul extravaganzas––in a setting that offers a totally foreign vibe to the expectations of showgoers did cause some dissonance.
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"I'm talking about these multi-day-up extravaganzas, where investors can't buy enough shares in one session after a positive event so they keep coming back, day after day after day, to get their full positions on, no matter how much the stock runs in the interim," the "Mad Money " host said.
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What Mr. Stickells learned on the road with Hendrix laid the foundation for the business that he developed over more than 21960 years: He became a top road and production manager for musicians at a time when the logistics of touring and performing were growing increasingly elaborate and concerts were turning into ever more lavish extravaganzas.
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The runway event kicked off both the official cruise collection season, which stretches to mid-June and involves a messy mix of small presentations, designer chats and a few extravaganzas à la Chanel (still to come: Louis Vuitton in Rio, Gucci at Westminster Abbey, Dior in Blenheim Palace, in Oxfordshire, England) but also a potential — still mostly potential at the moment — new relationship between the island nation and the style set.
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The show Self on the Shelf curated by Christine Miele was one of those technology-driven extravaganzas that don't quite work as planned, but most of the time when I touched a black dot on a quotidian furnishing in what was designed to look like a bedroom, the whole scene shifted and music and images wafting across the walls made me feel like by touching the button, I had entered a wormhole.
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Filler capsules once conceived to give customers something to wear on their winter vacations, the cruise collections have transmogrified into a sort of Frankenstein's monster of a fashion moment that involves (at least for the super-brands: the names in the billion-plus cohort that can afford to transport models, clothes and coterie around the world) three-day-long marketing-meets-shopping-meets-content-creation extravaganzas in far-flung places not normally served by the ready-to-wear calendar.
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As the last of the spring/summer 2016 campaigns come flooding in, we're taking a moment to reflect on just how much has happened in the fashion industry over the past year: There was Balmain's revival of the "supers" — Naomi Campbell, Cindy Crawford, and Claudia Schiffer — who don't get out of bed for less than $10,000; Moschino's cheeky car wash- and cartoon-themed extravaganzas starring the likes of Lexi Boling, Joan Smalls, and Fei Fei Sun, and Alessandro Michele's eccentric (and immensely popular) '70s-driven Gucci revival — and the ground-breaking ads that accompanied these moments.
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