At the same time, the extravagant and voyeuristic attention given to the tiny number of Roma families who have lavish mansions feeds suspicions that "they" are getting rich at "our" expense.
The four state-owned ones lent generously to ill-managed state-owned enterprises; the private banks (which account for the bulk of lending) lavished cash on developers, feeding a property bubble which burst in 2010.
The restaurant now offers a lavish spread, to feed as many as eight, centered on a whole suckling pig from DeBragga & Spitler, roasted and stuffed with sausage.
Reports of his lavish lifestyle there fed suspicions within the family that Zamarai had access to riches hidden by Ahmed Wali Karzai, perhaps through accounts and properties that had been placed in Zamarai's name.
In a fascinating essay in Lapham's Quarterly in 2013, the editor and writer Brent Cunningham dated the concept of the last meal to gladiators in ancient Rome, who were fed lavish feasts the night before they faced off in the Colosseum.
But flush with cash and with interest rates near zero, the Valley's leading lights are now competing with each other over who can build the most lavish digs, to feed their corporate egos as well as to attract and retain talent.In this section Shock treatment Corresponderous Googledome, or temple of doom?
"For more than half a century, Saudi leaders manipulated the United States by feeding our oil addiction, lavishing money on politicians, helping to finance American wars, and buying billions of dollars in weaponry from US companies.
He also relished feeding accused criminals to his personal crocodiles and lions at his lavish Villa Kolongo.
Hilton wrote in the Observer: "Surely we should be fighting corruption in the world, not feeding it with fat contracts that filch the earnings of British taxpayers to fund the lavish lifestyles of sleazy Chinese elites".
Surely we should be fighting corruption in the world, not feeding it with fat contracts that filch the earnings of British taxpayers to fund the lavish lifestyles of sleazy Chinese elites.
