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...Trump Tower, Chicago's Water Tower Place, Houston's Galleria or any of several other vacuously luxuriant shopping centers that seem designed for a latter-day Marie Antoinette. Here the architects became tacky in an orgy of salmon-colored tile and Spanish marble, brass and rosewood, fountains and vegetation and, naturally, a waterfall sculpture. Copley Place's two-level shopping mall is a catalogue of high-priced interior-decorator clich...
Amis also shows a knack for presenting familiar poets in unfamiliar guises. He dutifully includes not only Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky but also a dead-on parody of Hiawatha: ("From his shoulder Hiawatha/ Took the camera of rosewood-/ Made of sliding, folding rosewood ..."). A.E. Housman's familiar Hellenic manner is turned inside out in his version of a hilariously mistranslated Greek tragedy: "O suitably-attired-in-leather-boots/ Head of a traveller, wherefore seeking whom/ Whence by what way how purposed art thou come...
...years later, Chogyam-incarnate lama and "precious master" -sits behind a polished rosewood desk in a small but luxurious office in Boulder, Colo. Behind him hangs a large tapestry of a snow lion by the Japanese artist Tatsumura. His own paintings and calligraphy decorate the other walls. Six disciples, among them a scientist, a classicist and a physiotherapist, cluster around him, each dressed, like the master, in a dark suit. All are part of Chogyam's new kingdom: Naropa Institute, named for a great 8th century Buddhist scholar, the largest Buddhist study center...
...suggests that a game is one more TV drama, trying to be real, among the artificial people of commercials, who are also trying to be real. Illusion and reality, a fascination of Eliot and Camus, seemed a bit heavy to lay on Pete Rozelle the other day under the rosewood walls of his Park Avenue office. So I asked this most successful of sports commissioners if the National Football League was show business...
There is still, it is true, a wealth of gifts available for the unreconstructed bauble bestower. A woman might consider giving her man the ultimate desk: a T-shaped, 7-ft.-long slab of teak, rosewood or African kevazenga; it rests on a mirrored aluminum pedestal and delivery of $10,000 to Lehigh-Leopold Furniture Co. Or she may pin her love on his chest, in the form of a $3,000, one-of-a-kind Countess Mara necktie, described as a "blossoming 14-karat gold rose studded with genuine brilliantly faceted diamonds, mounted on imported silk-cut velvet...