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...have a set policy for getting in," says Rudolf, who manages the New York club Danceteria. "If our bouncers make 10 or 15 mistakes a night, they'll go unnoticed...
...like manner, while the decor reveals the talents of underground artists, it relegates them to secondary importance. Of course, this is only for the time being: "The underground is the birthplace of the overground," Rudolf asserts. "What I'm doing now will be mainstream tomorrow...
What allows a club to survive beyond what many have labelled "the average lifespan of 1000 nights"? To a large extent, the answer is determined by the energy and stamina an owner can invest in his creation. For Rudolf the answer is simple: "I do nightlife with passion, for my own entertainment; when I get bored here, I change it." But he adds, "Some change the decor and have the illusion they're changing the club. You have to change the spirit...
...anything else in this city, the determinant of success or failure, of whether a movement is "hot" or "dead," is its acceptance by the elite. In the world of nightclubs, that group is the "A-Crowd," those "50 or so people who go to all the dinner parties," says Rudolf...
Museums have learned their part in this vicarious regilding. They supply a sense of history as spectacle. This seems to work particularly well with English history. Relatively few Americans can imagine themselves as King Tut, Rudolf II of Prague or Lorenzo de' Medici, but there is no shortage of people who feel that with the right decorator, their homes might become facsimiles of English landed estates, complete with an old red setter molting on a new reproduction William Kent sofa...