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...Trump builds big and lavish
...interior, however, could be in New York City's 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...
Using these basic methods, Trio managers to come up with two songs that are surprisingly accomplished "Boom Boom" is a riff rocker that manages with its one guitar to be both heavier and more rocking than most heavy metal songs with their flurry of frenetic guitars. "Hearts are Trump" (get it?) is basically a silly love song, lifted by a fuzzy synth lead, and some shimmering backing vocals. And for those who didn't hear it the first time around. Trio has obligingly reprised their hit "Da Da Da etc." It's surprising how much mileage the band has gotten...
FORTUNATELY, THE SHOW never strays too far from its comic trump cards--buffoonery and lewdness. The crowd is treated to a male slave (Bob Brown) being forced by Pseudolus to don women's clothing, only to be pursued by nearly every man in the cast. The young girl Philia plays her airhead-blonde character to the hilt, unwittingly offering herself to the wrong men and ruining the schemes designed to unite her with Hero. And Pseudolus moves rapidly from character to character, passing himself off as head of the house, a soothsayer, a brothel-keeper, and, of course, Cupid...
Lampert's book is excellently reported and loaded with lively reconstructed dialogue, although sometimes the drumfire of detail hangs out like clothespins on a line. Lampert discloses that Donald Trump, the New York City real estate tycoon, considered tendering an offer for about 7% of Bendix during the takeover battle in exchange for RCA stock owned by Bendix. The author describes how Agee and Cunningham did not feel they had to play by the same rules as everyone else. At one point, Bruce Wasserstein, a First Boston investment banker who was advising Bendix, tells a flustered Agee: "Before...