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Although it had a working title of Decade of Decadence, it would be released as Decade of Aggression after Mötley Crüe copyrighted the name on their 1991 greatest hits album.

IN a city like Miami Beach, notorious for after-dark decadence, it should come as no surprise that nightlife has found its daytime equivalent -- at hotel pools and beach clubs.

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But as a brand bearing all the hallmarks of Western decadence, it soon raised the ire of groups like the Islamic Defenders Frontt, or F.P.I., a hard-line organization frequently blamed, but rarely punished, for violent attacks on secularists and minority religions.

Although "vast demonstrations of solidarity will make little or no impression on the terrorists … it is essential to demonstrate as loudly as possible... that, for all the handwringing about western society's decadence, it retains core values of decency, compassion and tolerance".

But she's also a stylistic chameleon; over the course of the show her body distorts to the hallucinatory slow motion of Butoh; it turns lazy-hipped and sensual, it evokes a Weimar Republic decadence, it inhabits the lope, the trot, the undulations of a menagerie of animal selves.

The film, which stars Galya Belyayeva and Oleg Yankovsky, "is so rich in its imagery and its sense of heedless, prerevolutionary decadence, and it's so full of associations to the great, far more condensed works Chekhov would write for the theater a few years later, that to watch it is a fascinating, almost intoxicating experience," Vincent Canby wrote in The Times.

It was originally built in 1818, so it retains some sort of that old-world decadence and it is supposedly one of the top five places in the world for listening to music.

"You know what it's like — I was swept away in the decadence of it," he said, his long fingers fluttering around his face.

It's hard to make a case for the intoxicating effects of decadence when it has all the transgressive charge of an extra scoop of vanilla ice cream.

The decadence of it all, when you're dressed in nothing but a robe.