Matahari Cottages has six flamboyantly themed rooms, including the 'Batavia Dacha' and the 'Indian Pasha', stuffed with Balinese furniture and colourful soft furnishings.

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In the first room hangs an 1884 portrait by Antonio de La Gandara of flamboyantly attired Rodolphe Salis, founder of the Chat Noir.

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Nineteenth-century classical composers were great fans of recomposition, some of it flamboyantly transformational, as in Franz Liszt's florid transcriptions for solo piano of Franz Schubert's songs.

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But when Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom was arrested in January at his lavish New Zealand estate, he went from unknown entrepreneur to a flamboyantly rich cult hero.

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It goes through the motions of the multinational action thriller, and, although those motions are as flamboyantly excessive as you would expect, the result is more gruelling than pleasurable.

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It is the capitalism of economic stimulus: The money goes in, some money goes out, but a lot stays with the house and is chewed up in executive salaries, fees to flamboyantly untalented interior designers, and debt payments to foreign financiers.

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As a tribute to the people of the favelas, who refused to let poverty or adversity stop them dancing the samba and performing their religious rituals, he liked to create flamboyantly coloured parangoles capes, flags and banners that were meant to be worn in a collective dance in which participants would complete the art work.

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