"Funny thing is," said Mr. Pendergrass, "we keep afloat by catering to the third-world clientele.
Many of Mürren's old palace hotels have now gone, although the 100-year-old 100-year-old 100-year-old Hotelthe gReginald Hotel Bellevue destillestandson the Kleine Scheidegg pand, justheelow the Eigrandstills attract an old-world clientele for tHotel Bellevue des Alpes food and the fin de siècle décor.
A pillow menu, gold-plated bathroom fixtures and spacious rooms will not be enough to woo the next generation of the world's wealthiest clientele.
Mr. Dimitrov, 33, whose restaurant is now a center for the city's growing Bulgarian community, said the white pages introduced him to this world and his clientele.
The details were impressive, surely a vote for a rising Dow, and even if one longed for a pair of plain tweed trousers, Mr. de la Renta was wise to look to a wider world, where his clientele resides.
If Philip Treacy is there for the Camilla Parker Bowleses of this world, Cozmo's clientele is more of the west-London, rock'n'roll variety, amply epitomised today by the two Woods women.
As is well known, Eliot spent much of his adult life as a publisher at Faber, in whose archives there are 40 box-files to do with the Criterion, the magazine Eliot edited, and 120 box-files of correspondence as a publisher, representing, as Schuchard puts it, "43 years of daily engagement with a world-wide literary clientele".
And while relatively few links exist to contemporary visual arts, that world and its moneyed clientele provide essential ancillary income.
The kind of nation, in fact, that forms much of the bank's clientele, and the world's worry list, now.
While Falcetano endured a lecture from his customer about American hegemony ("The dollar fucking runs the world"), his friends recalled memorable clientele, such as the group of young mothers who requested a 3 A.M. pit stop at a greasy spoon and boasted of their various liaisons over cheese fries.
In the early 2nd Century, the satirist Juvenal (admittedly one of the grumpiest old men of the ancient world) bemoaned the kind of clientele you'd meet in an Ostian bar: "Thugs, thieves, runaway slaves, hangmen, coffin makers", and, not so common in a modern port, maybe, "eunuch priests".
