The purple lighting and Gothic wrought-iron art work feels like someone slightly out of their mind tried to recreate a New Orleans bordello.
The bar, which used to be a massage parlour of questionable repute until it was shut down in March 2011, now has a Victorian bordello-inspired decor.
Ms. MCCLOSKEY: A very plush, red, velvety, bordello-style lounge area, with dim red, extremely flattering lighting, and the older I get, the more I appreciate the lighting.
Such open activity in an international luxury hotel might be shocking to many Americans, but for most Chinese it was not surprising that a bordello was operating there, but that local government authorities actually shut it down.
When the priest loses one of his companions in a foreign land, he practices "the words he had learned from the book of travels" -- he tells everyone who will listen, "I want a woman, " and a little boy leads him to a bordello.
The upgrade coincides with a similar face-lift for many Victoria's Secret stores, run by Grace Nichols. (The two parts of the Victoria's Secret business together make up two-thirds of Intimate Brands, a publicly traded affiliate of Leslie Wexner's Limited Inc.) Stores in urban markets will lose the Victorian bordello look they now have.
It would be a bummer, I'd go so far as to say suicidal, if I'd spent the price of a prix fixe dinner at Le Bernardin on air freshener, only to get it home and discover it didn't live up to expectations, that my apartment smelled not like spring in Provence but a Parisian bordello.
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The upgrade coincides with a similar face-lift for many Victoria's Secret stores, which are run by Grace Nichols. (The two parts of the Victoria's Secret business together make up two thirds of Intimate Brands, a publicly traded affiliate of Leslie Wexner's Limited.) Stores in urban markets will lose the Victorian bordello look they have now.
The hero of her tale, Andriy, is played by Eugene Hutz, the explosively hairy front man of a band called Gogol Bordello. (That name itself has more rough poetry than anything in the movie.) Andriy shares an apartment in London with Holly (Holly Weston), a dancer, and Juliette (Vicky McClure), an ordinary kleptomaniac pharmaceutical assistant.
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