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...When he first arrived for spring training, Gazza stayed in Guangzhou at one of the most opulent hotels in town, where the lobby showcased live white tigers pacing in glass cages. Training camp, though, was an hour-and-a-half away from the glitz of Guangzhou and it introduced him to a different China. The hotel mattress felt like it was stuffed with goal posts, the toilet overflowed and the only wildlife in the hotel was tiny, brown and had six legs. "It's supposed to be a communist country, where everybody's equal-like" observes Gazza. "But I reckon...
Gabellini isn't being dismissive of himself or his colleagues. He is simply making the point that behind the glitz is a mission: put the customer in a set--a retail mise-en-scene, he calls it--that seduces him or her into buying. The store, he says, should be "a rational extension of the [fashion] designer." Gabellini spends inordinate amounts of time with the fashion folks, right down to the artisan, trying to understand the craft of each house. Then he puts on his bean-counter hat and assesses the ratio of clothing sales to accessories sales and factors...
That the summer was punctuated by a terrorist attack on New York City hangs mostly unspoken over The Hamptons. But there's an elegiac air amid the sun and glitz here, a reminder of the feeling, even before Sept. 11, that the turn-of-the-century easy-money culture was fading. (One subject, Josh Sagman, an oxygen-bar peddler--he literally charges people to breathe--is the embodiment of cocky boom-era entrepreneurialism.) Even in midsummer, local author Steven Gaines talks about the place in the past tense. "This was the resort that was closest to the financial center...
...negative reviews and a limited run that never extended. Though the production quietly disappeared without winning a Tony or much of a following, it effectively dealt with the difficulties of the problematic book and offered a fascinating view of marriage, personal decisions and lies. Yes, it lacked in glitz and glamor, but in its sparse, decaying production, there was something unspeakably tragic and captivating about this Follies that deserved a greater chance for success and commemoration...
...think Las Vegas is a quicksand of tasteless glitz and shameless spectacle. So does Dave Hickey, who figures that makes it the perfect place for art. Visual thrills are a local industry, mile-high neon and fake pyramids just part of the scenery. "Vegas aspires to visibility," he says. "Art is an extension and refinement of what Vegas is about...