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...looked closer, they would notice an intriguing sign in the window: "Play Rooms Available." For $115 an hour, customers can rent one of two dungeons to indulge any of their bondage, dominance and sadomasochism (BDSM) proclivities. "People come from Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Australia, China - all over the world," says Decima, the store's 54-year-old British owner and the central matchmaker in a burgeoning community of Asian bondage seekers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tough Love | 3/19/2001 | See Source »

...Decima's dungeons are deliberately dark and creepy, but she runs her business in a clean, illuminated manner. "I bought the store and decided to build a community. I wanted it bright and open with nothing to hide." Composed and articulate, Decima sits with the rigid posture of a school-mistress, a remnant of her last job as a high-school drama teacher. Decima is, of course, a nom de guerre: she got into BDSM with her husband and, in her personal time, likes to be both dominant and submissive. But Decima will only be tied up by her spouse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tough Love | 3/19/2001 | See Source »

Faculty Recital: Joan Heller, Soprano, Terry Decima, piano. Works of Schubert, Faure, Britten and Elizabeth Lutyens. Concert Hall, Boston University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: September 26--October 2 | 9/26/1985 | See Source »

...dimensional beside the rich, flowing whimsy of The Player Queen. Given the role of Septimns, a drunken poet, Russell more than acquits himself in the evening's second play. His eulogy of the chaste unicorn is particularly charming. The most skillful performance of the evening is Bronias Sielewicz' Decima, the actress who becomes queen when the real queen flees an attacking mob. Graceful in her movements, she is alternately coy and contemptuous as the part demands...

Author: By Richard H. Ullman, | Title: Two Plays by Yeats | 12/12/1953 | See Source »

...will admit bitter defeat. Should it be said, either now scornfully by our enemy who sacrifices his all, or by victory which without distortion records the great and the little in national deeds, that we failed, for all our wealth and all our pride, to equal in one decima that which Germany does? That in itself, irrespective of the outcome of the conflict of arms, would be defeat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE NATION'S STRENGTH | 6/5/1917 | See Source »

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