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...Bellagio hotel had never hosted a caucus before, but they ran the swankest voting site ever in which tiaras were not handed out. The caucus was held in the marble-floored, crystal-wall-sconced Tower ballroom a few yards from the casino. And yet the hotel was still unsatisfied. "For us, that room has nothing in it," said Alan Feldman, Bellagio's senior vice president of public affairs. "Even the water is in pitchers. We would never do that. It would be bottles of Fiji in little cooled metal holders. Next year, we want to sit down with the party...
...swankest show in the West End is "Absolutely (Perhaps)," Martin Sherman's adaptation of the Pirandello play usually known in English as "Right You Are (If You Think You Are)." Director Franco Zeffirelli, still sparking glamorous ideas at 80, also designed the production: instead of walls, he has grids of rectangular jigsaw pieces flanked by walled mirrors. The set handsomely visualizes the play's core: a puzzle demanding reflection. On either side of the set are two rows of seats for members of the audience - our surrogates in considering the scandal that unfolds, silent (for the most part) judges...
Chicago Housing Authority chairman Vincent Lane called for the National Guard to be deployed at Cabrini-Green. Mayor Richard Daley instead ordered a massive police sweep of the 70-acre, 78-building project, which houses 7,000 residents a few blocks from the city's swankest shopping district. At a press conference last Monday, Daley confirmed what most urban Americans already know, saying, "We have seen a complete breakdown of society...
Professors munched caviar, students sipped champagne, and realtors rolled out the red carpet for Harvard's president, as the University and a local developer yesterday celebrated the completion of University Green, the swankest condominium complex this side of the Charles River...
...Love, right along with it. There is no reason to doubt, either, that there are a few more where that came from. Warner Bros, is projecting an album sale of at least 2 million by Christmas, a figure that can make the middle of the road look like the swankest neighborhood in town...