Conference officials are still given to extravagant statements about the meeting's significance.
The art nouveau lettering of Maxim's original sign, in Paris, is one of the great extravagant statements in the entire Italic tradition--a joyous, invitation to gaiety.
Nature, making extravagant statements and gestures everywhere, would not have missed the opportunity to put appropriate punctuation at el fin del mundo". To the south, 600 miles away, the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula marks the other end of the passage.
In the Mississippi case, the tribunal had faulted Judge James E. Graves Jr. of Circuit Court in Jackson for allowing lawyers for a Mississippi businessman to make "prejudicial and extravagant" statements to the jury about the Canadian defendants' wealth and nationality.
I don't know if anyone in the financial markets still takes Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill seriously, but his extravagant statements on behalf of a strong dollar -- he recently declared that if he changed his mind on the subject, he would hire Yankee Stadium and a brass band to announce it -- are the opposite of helpful.
But in April, as we flew from Liège to Valencia, he had argued that it was wrongheaded to believe that economic belt-tightening calls for a less extravagant architectural statement.
Many say Birkenstocks are the most comfortable shoes in the world, and that's how sandals should be; a sensuous underworld of affordable orthopaedic pleasure, rather than an extravagant style statement.
But, third, if you have to make an extravagant style statement, there are more designer sandals out this summer than ever: Y-3 offers colourful, hi-tech sporty sandals, Givenchy by Riccardo Tisci has its own baroque take on the Birkenstock, and Adidas by Raf Simons is hawking pool sliders.
The extravagant floral statements are arranged by one of Stresa's owners.
