To the hulking pal, I look like one of the wealthy, apartment-dwelling burghers of swanky neighbourhoods like Boa Viagem or Casa Forte, a man of pomp and prosperity.
She eventually ends up at a wealthy man's apartment and snags some mysterious letters.
They're not particularly wealthy — their own apartment is rent-controlled and relatively small.
His father was a bond-firm president and his family was wealthy, with an apartment in Manhattan and a summer house on Nantucket.
The complaint also contends that instead of making investments, Mr. Follieri used the money he raised to indulge in a lifestyle that included the perquisites of the wealthy: a Manhattan apartment overlooking Rockefeller Center, for which he paid $37,000 a month; a house call by his doctor that cost $30,000 and medical expenses for his parents and his girlfriend at the time.
For the writer, the Dickensian lens offers an easy view of Mumbai: wealthy and poor, apartment-dwelling and slum-dwelling, bulbous and malnourished.
Amanieh is a wealthy neighborhood of new apartment highrises housing doctors, engineers and post-war educated professionals.
Larry's half-sister Maggie, whose mother was wealthy, lives near the apartment where Larry is staying, but they never see each other.
Perhaps more important, however, the new design would not affect the views of the handful of wealthy and potentially litigious apartment owners across the street.
A wealthy owner of an apartment, most likely in the upscale area of Zamalek, would have had some high-level contacts to get to Sadat – a connection that would be unavailable to millions of Egyptians.
