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...purposely distressed leather sofas while they anxiously await admission). All this entrance-intrigue is bathed in the lurid, erotic glow of red lamps clasped in the fangs of ornate snake-candelabra, or coyly veiled in rice paper (wasn’t it Woody Allen who used a red light bulb as a sexual expedient in Annie Hall?). On the far wall hang paintings of frolicking figures in prurient postures, Matissean dancers in revelry. Overhead, Starck-sleek fans of brushed steel revolve with drawing-room languor, conspicuously at odds with the clamor and chatter below. And diffusing throughout the room, holding...
...Prancing Horse play the ponies/buy a Ferrari Poker chip call your bookie Sail-shaped patterns junk trip! HSBC headquarters building Don't worry, there's plenty more money where this came from Light bulb Hong Kong is out of bright ideas. Purchase a flat in Shanghai
...pervade Goya's work. He was fascinated, obsessed with them and recorded all their aspects, actual and mythic, typified and individual. His subjects come from all classes. They appear as demonic witches and country sweethearts, as closely human or icily remote aristocrats, star actresses of theater-crazy Madrid, ordinary bulb-nosed wives, allegorical personifications of history, gap-jawed crones, alluring and cheeky majas, cute and not-so-cute whores, blond angels with diaphanous wings on the walls of the Church of San Antonio de la Florida--a conspectus, you might say, of every she-creature the eye could light...
...century; they did not need to be told that the region could be dangerous. The same can be said of the insurance industry, which has been ratcheting up rates since the U.S. terror attacks, in the face of wildly higher demand for political-risk coverage. "No light bulb went off on Sept. 11," says Patricia Skold, who is head of CHUBB GROUP's political risk worldwide and has experience working for the U.S. intelligence community. "We've always been aware of the risk." But some of Chubb's new customers and those of its competitors suddenly had their awareness raised...
...July. Cheney, who suffered his fourth heart attack last year, may have to wear the business card-size device for the rest of his life. But should his heart ever act up again, the thing will automatically deliver a small jolt of electricity (enough to light a 30-watt bulb for 1 sec.) and snap it back into line...