Diners at the Hotel Metropole in Monaco are still willing to shell out €137 for a grand dish of rock lobster.But the outlook for the rich is no longer the "glad, confident morning" that it seemed just two years ago.
Surrounded by bright and beautiful young assistants, christened by the press the Battettes, Alan dyed his hair blonder, wore it longer, dressed in glad rags and drove a white BMW in a sometimes wobbly line from appointment to appointment.
Here is a sampling, in some cases condensed from longer postings: I am glad the report came out and had the cost analysis.
I'm glad I no longer drink.
Mr. Faqiryar also said he was glad he no longer worked for the government.
And she's glad she no longer lives in the sanitarium.
She's even glad to no longer rent from her parents, who easily rented out the James Monroe apartment.
"I am particularly glad to no longer be asked when the Beatles are coming to iTunes," Ringo Starr said in the announcement.
Mr. Gutfreund, above, said he was glad he no longer had to go to the Costume Institute ball at the Metropolitan Museum of Art anymore.
He is glad he no longer teaches, saying that the national curriculum and the failure to trust teachers had 'destroyed everything that made teaching a pleasure'.
