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...faux snakeskin, suede, silk and organza add gloriously theatrical touches, and the opulence is carried through to the restaurant, Desire. The Scarlet's luxe in-room amenities include a gourmet minibar and a whirlpool bath. But if that's not enough, check into one of the five suites, named Splendour, Passion, Opulent, Lavish and Swank. Understated they...
...Scarlet's luxe in-room amenities include a gourmet minibar and a whirlpool bath. But if that's not enough, check into one of the five suites, named Splendour, Passion, Opulent, Lavish and Swank. Understated they...
...never stopped rallying, so weary voters dumped him when the danger receded. "There went out of British public life," laments Cannadine, "a splendour of utterance which it seems highly unlikely will ever be seen or heard or witnessed again." Britain is a smaller place today, a sound-bite world where people are less interested in eloquence than in property prices and sex scandals. They would do well to hark back to their hero. "The day may dawn," declared Churchill in his 1955 parliamentary farewell, "when fair play, love for one's fellow men, respect for justice and freedom, will enable...
When Sanders was not playing, he picked upvarious shakers and bells which he used to furtherthe pseudo-exotic atmosphere that teetered on thebrink between ritualistic splendour and purekitsch. Unfortunately, that line was irrevocablycrossed on the tune that ended the set. PianistWilliam Henderson moved over to a Casio keyboardand punched out a bubble-gum pop vamp whileSanders danced around the stage. Sanders thenpicked up a huge metal hemisphere, banged it witha mallet and let the reverberations from the belllinger until they faded to the infinite. Withthis, complete Karmic transcendence of the soulwas reached, although a curiously cheesy smellremained...
...seeking to absorb and understand the power of those ties and the "splendour and desolation" of the land, Glass set out from Alexandretta, now in southern Turkey, to Aqaba in Jordan, following the invasion path used by Alexander the Great and the Crusaders. His odyssey ended abruptly when a peculiarly modern kind of tribe, the Hizballah, kidnaped and held him hostage in Beirut for two months until his escape. The trip is the framework for this book. He describes it as a "literary and spiritual ramble through the history of a troubled land." It is really a travelogue, letting...