Word: bordello
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...Balcony. To France's Jean Genet, the world is a great, squamous bordello, and his play argues with convincing irony in support of this notion...
...Bordello Opulence. Behind Lapidus' philosophy rests a firm conviction that architecture's age of simplicity is doomed. His hotels are a tossed salad of riotously flamboyant styles that range from borscht-belt baroque to Coney Island modern. With exaggeration that verges on caricature, he splashes his hotels with colorful bordello opulence that offends traditionalists, flabbergasts sophisticates and often delights the uninitiated. Lapidus takes pride in the fact that he gives people "something to gape at.'' In fact, he calls his arced, 565-room Fontainebleau a "tasteful three-ring circus." But the star turn among his hotels...
...will one day comprise the main stream of literature, as some of its proselytizers seem to think. But he defends it vigorously as a popular art form, and, by way of illustrating its appeal, he cites the case of a science-fiction writer who wandered into a New Orleans bordello and found his work so highly favored by the staff that he was asked to be the guest of the establishment. Better writers may have won the Pulitzer Prize, but few have won this sort of recognition...
Died. Ada Everleigh, 93, regal co-madam (with her late sister, Minna) of Chicago's lavish turn-of-the-century bordello, the Everleigh Club, which boasted a bevy of demure girls, string music, perfume-squirting fountains and a 1,000-volume library at a price of $100 for a "mild evening," was finally closed by severe reformers in 1911, sending the millionaire sisters off to retirement in Manhattan with a golden piano and a few other mementos of the good old glittering days; in Chicago...
...sing and parade under the gaily colored streamers and lights hastily erected for the welcoming, it was a pretty dreary place that Sukarno had come to at the end of a two-month world tour. Once a well-ordered colonial city under French rule, Hanoi became a jittery, bordello-ridden citadel during the Indo-China war, but after five years of Communist rule has turned into a place where, says one frequent foreign visitor, "the only noise is the absence of noise. Nobody smiles. Not even the children laugh...