Just outside his establishment was his large red sports car.Some massage parlours have jacuzzis, others boast of dungeons complete with whips and manacles.
A small painting shows a former slave and her child working a meagre vegetable patch and, near it, a bronze of a bare-chested emancipated slave features the cruel bracelets of broken manacles.
Hard choices loom in energy among dangerous nuclear power, dirty coal and expensive renewables.Germany's leaders will handle all this wearing fiscal manacles.
IN THE summer of 1912 Harry Houdini was clapped in manacles and leg-irons, stuffed into a crate that had been weighed down by lead, and dropped from a tugboat into New York's East River.
Mr Schwarzman has derided public ownership, calling stockmarkets "overrated", and bashed the Sarbanes-Oxley act, which clamps corporate-governance manacles on listed firms.
Beyond the jarring spectacle of blindfolded men in orange suits and manacles, the whole idea of locking people up indefinitely without trial looked un-American, a perversion of the values of a nation ruled by law.
In his poem "London" (1794), he described "the mind-forged manacles" imposed on the population by the tyranny of Church, State, and monarchy.
It houses a collection of maps, bills-of-trade, paintings and artefacts – including manacles and whips – which resonate with a particular horror in this context.
Falmouth: Orca Sea Safaris www.kingharryscornwall.co.uk/frl/orca, 01326 214928 Trip to explore the Manacles reef in 12-seater rigid inflatable boats.
One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination.
The old names were manacles; shackbolts, or shackles; gyves; and swivels.
