Word: luxus
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...word in the great pursuit of pleasure is Luxus, or luxury. It is commonly used these days to describe ashtrays, bathrooms, cars, furnishings, graphics, holidays -- just about anything used in everyday life that is well- designed or distinctive. Frequently it means something outrageously expensive. G&M, a mail-order house in Bavaria, caters specifically to such tastes, offering a catalog of 273 "carefully selected luxury gifts," with a total value of $26.5 million; among them are a Tabriz rug for $964,000 and a gold-plated record player for $75,000. Dieter Schiwietz, a Hamburg plastic surgeon, says women...
...cornucopia of wealth and well-being has brought some strange insecurities. "Luxus is a way of trying to making yourself different from others," complains Munich socialite Heidi Schoeller, the wife of a banker. "Money doesn't mean very much in a society where everyone...
...balanced her in a luxus of mind, shimmering, orbicular .... eldetic smells of the sterness yet warmness of rum manufactured themselves somewhere in his brain, an acidotic Juice of eye, tympanum, olfactory endings, paplliae, ran over its pink cortex as from torn fruit flesh...
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