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...immerse the consumer in activities and experiences that are emotionally based but relevant," says Michael Bills, president of RPA, a retail management-and-design consultancy in Columbus, Ohio. That's a long way from the exclusiveness of Ralph Lauren's classic New York City flagship in the former Rhinelander mansion and Calvin Klein's ultra-urban-cool outlet on Madison Avenue, both trendsetting statements in their day. It's an experience that has now become two way, says Bills, thanks to the reach of technology. Before cable, before TiVo, we were sit-back consumers, willing to watch what...
ALFREDO STROESSNER Paraguay After a 1989 coup ended his 35-year dictatorship, he hightailed it to Brazil, where he lives a luxurious life, with his wife, in a mansion outside the capital of Brasilia...
...extreme eating challenges and extreme backstabbing. But it is in her second reality go-around, on the WB's The Surreal Life, that she really finds herself out of her element: she is the only nonactor or nonmusician in a group of seven former celebrities picked to share a mansion for 10 days. "None of us know who she is," says housemate and former teen idol Corey Feldman in the debut episode. "She's not part of our society." "I felt like she didn't belong here--maybe because she was from a reality show," says roomie Brande Roderick (Baywatch...
...early 1990s, intergang gun battles are down to two a month. Once almighty syndicates are losing scores of men and millions of dollars because of the disruption to their businesses. Arun Gawli, who describes himself as a former Mafia don, sees himself as a virtual prisoner in his own mansion, living behind a phalanx of armed guards, CCTV and four separate locked gates, out of fear of what he calls "police contract killings." "In a democracy, these sorts of killings are unlawful," he says. Gawli, 51, claims he has lost a total of 60 associates to encounters in the past...
...from school the three daughters of her daughter Liz, a lawyer at the State Department. (Daughter Mary just got her M.B.A. and is on the board of the Republican Unity Coalition, which seeks to build bridges between gay and straight g.o.p.-ers.) Lynne brings her granddaughters back to the mansion, which has been redone to a fare-thee-well in beige and ecru. Next to the huge, stark Frankenthaler canvas and the Christmas tree strung with white lights and dried roses that only an adult could love, the kids' stash of Huffy bikes, Hula-Hoops and an electric Barbie...