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Franchises cost up to $35,000. The companies provide the equipment and decor, which is often early Gilligan's Island: rattan and white wicker furniture, palm trees, sometimes thatched roofs on the tanning "huts." Operators charge customers $35 and up for a series of 20 visits, and $125 or more for a year's unlimited tanning. A few offer $500 life memberships. Franchisers talk enthusiastically about the clinics' profit potential, which they say is especially good because the overhead is low and there are no product costs. Some operators have done well, but others have...
Barry Lyndon (1975). Stanley Kubrick proves that landscape (also costume, decor and the play of light) can substitute for plot and dialogue to reveal the character...
...Rossetti, Bouguereau and Burne-Jones, is constantly expanding his collection, which is already far too large to display in his cavernous two-story bachelor apartment off Manhattan's Central Park. He concedes that his paintings of diabolic winged creatures, furiously driven chariots and diaphanously clad maidens are basically "decor," adding: "You are not supposed to look at the paintings, they look "at you. The art puts out the energy." Anything that produces energy these days should be profitable, of course, and Pivar's collection is no exception. "Since I started to collect," he says with satisfaction, "19th century...
...than at ankle level. Ceiling fans can reduce heating costs sharply, from 25% to 35%, simply by swishing the over-head reservoir of warm air down to where the people are. Designs range from units with plain wooden blades to brass and even iron-scrollwork extravaganzas that recall the decor of turn-of-the-century ice cream parlors. Top-of-the-line ceiling fans are made by the Hunter Fan Co. retail...
Even as the theme-artifact market was booming, another restaurant trend was developing. That day, of the two most In restaurants in Los Angeles, one was operating without a sign of identification, the other with an unlisted phone number. In both, the decor could only be called early tool shed...