They live in obscene wealth, with sprawling manors displaying both their decadent splendor that their affluence provides, as well as the emotional distance, isolation and subtle yet divisive separation in their familial relationship.
Remnants of the culture's art and advertising indicate that the males were forced to cover up their bodies with bulky textiles, while the female form is generally displayed in the splendor of quasi nudity.
Established in 1952 at the University of London, the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art was until 2007 kept in a Georgian house on Gordon Square; it then moved on long-term loan to the British Museum, where it was reorganized and displayed in considerable splendor with a grant from a Hong Kong businessman.
Then, at Plaza de Díaz Sanz, the structure makes an abrupt turn and heads toward Plaza Azoguejo (shown), where it displays its full splendor.
Other amusements include Glasgow's Glasgow, an exhibition in 22 brick-vaulted arches recently rediscovered beneath the Victorian splendor of Central Station, displaying thousands of objects associated with the city.
While extra monitors might increase productivity in certain situations — the sort of situations that can be easily tested in a research setting — they seem to do so at a high cost, by displaying a stream of digital splendors, constantly vying for your attention.
When the Metz branch of the Pompidou opened in 2010, there were rumors that the curtain would once again be displayed in its full splendor.
The sign was the Strip's largest, 216 feet long, rising 27 feet above the casino's first floor, with 11,000 bulbs and 7,000 feet of neon tubing, sparkling with extraterrestrial splendor: it displayed the entire solar system, the Earth at its pre-Copernican center.
In her book "A Parisian in Brazil," an account of life in Rio in the 1850s, Adèle Toussaint-Samson remarked on the profusion of milliners, hairdressers, florists and pastry shops "displayed in all their splendor" along the Rua do Ouvidor, and took special note of the street's leisure-loving denizens.
And like such predecessors as "The Soul and the Face," "Lombardy in the 16th Century: From Leonardo to Caravaggio" and "Verdi: The Man, the Works, the Myth," this one pursues an ambitious intellectual agenda through sprawling displays of splendors.
After shuffling inside with swarms of tour groups, one discovers a hollow, cavernous hall with little of the artistic splendor that is displayed outside.
