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...oven. "It broke my heart," said Auctioneer Alan Erlichman. "Opulence and waste . . . It's a sacrilege." In fact, though Mrs. Marcos had stuffed the house with sugarplums, in recent years she had seldom spent a night there. In New York, she preferred to sleep in the penthouse of the posh Crown Building, which she owned, or to take a set of suites at the Waldorf-Astoria. As yet another cushion in the disco at East 66th Street points out, "Good girls go to heaven. Bad girls go everywhere...
...eateries -- caviar and quail to go. Matrons browse among $11,000 silk dresses and $5,000 crocodile handbags in the boutiques of Clothier Amen Wardy, an ex-Texan who is happy to send clients a "clothesmobile" staffed with a fitter. South Coast Plaza in Costa Mesa is equally posh. Yachts and other pleasure craft are so numerous that dock space in Newport Beach's harbor rents for as much as $300 a month for a 30-footer. Local Mercedes Dealer Jim Slemons has doubled his business in four years and stocks eight acres of cars. In a branch...
...National Y in Washington, the steep annual fees ($473 to $807) paid by 80% of clients finance vans that ferry in members of less posh local branches. In Virginia, the three Tidewater Ys teach all the fifth-graders of Chesapeake to swim. They also have aquatics classes for the physically impaired and aerobics classes for the mentally handicapped. The fitness programs help cover the cost of such services...
Every aspect of the hotel's decoration, including the design of matching marble toilets and bidets, was personally supervised by the famed couturier. Since the hotel is located in Paris' posh eighth arrondissement not far from the official residence of the President of France, Cardin hopes that it will attract visiting diplomats and royalty...
...information needs to be communicated. Besides, the portion of English words in any major language is not statistically large --generally less than 5%, according to some estimates--and the process of adopting new words follows a sort of international balance of trade. Discotheque came into American usage from France, posh from England, brainwashing from China and so on. "I dislike any form of nationalism," says Italian Novelist Alberto Moravia, "least of all a nationalistic attitude towards language...