Instead of having to walk up the stairs from the top landing to his studio, he uses a specially installed lift, but there are few other concessions for the man who, some seven decades ago, broke the stranglehold of the right angle and the straight line on Western architecture.
"If a credible evangelical leader is willing to break with the American oil industry's stranglehold on the right, I want to work with him on that one thing," Pope told HuffPost.
Sky's business has long benefited from paying substantial sums to maintain a stranglehold on the rights to be the first to air Hollywood films in the UK.
It says everything you need to know about how strong the Right's stranglehold on the Republican Party has become that Newt Gingrich, the original barbarian at the GOP gate leading the 1994 right wing revolution, is now considered a voice of moderation.
Overriding the stranglehold of a broad patent in this case was the right thing for the government to do-both for the war effort and for the aviation industry.
However, being part of the press is about cutting through the stranglehold with which the NRA attempts to frighten our politicians from doing the right thing.
Clearly, this is not going to break the stranglehold of the City on the economy, but it is a step in the right direction.
The right has developed a visceral knee-jerk reaction to anything involving culture, and their "loyal opposition" stranglehold doesn't seem to be loosening anytime soon.
But the Kiwis maintained their stranglehold and Marshall stabbed through a kick for Nightingale to gather and score the opener, although Marshall missed the conversion from wide on the right.
Sky already markets itself as Europe's biggest content producer, largely because of its stranglehold over rights to the Premier League.
It is grotesque and we must endure it for another three or seven years, given that the Republicans have a stranglehold on power right now and are more invested in holding onto that power than working for the greater good of all Americans.
