The deluxe world he depicts is an alternative reality, a fantastical entertainment, and an antidote to the financial realities of the audience who saw it.
Vantage Deluxe World Travel: 90 Canal Street, Boston, Mass.
Harry Lewis, president of Vantage Deluxe World Journeys, which sells Holland America's cruises, reported the opposite.
When Sheikh Hamed paid £100m for the best residence at London's One Hyde Park apartment building in 2007, it confirmed the city as the world's premier deluxe property investment honeypot.
In February 2008, my parents purchased a dream cruise around Europe through a company called Vantage Deluxe World Travel, a large tour operator based in Boston that markets to seniors.
All the same, the May catalogue from Vantage Deluxe World Travel gave me a start: it's for the 2001 "Holiday Collection" and its cover shows a five-story Christmas tree in snow in a chilly European twilight.
The World Book Encyclopedia Deluxe Windows CD-ROM ($23 for Windows or $74 for Mac OS X, at www.worldbook.com) is also a two-CD set with every article from the print edition plus 9,400 illustrations and two hours of video.
As it celebrates its 120th anniversary, the mall now sells some of the world's most deluxe brands alongside retro style Soviet products in old-fashioned shops.
"We hit a critical mass at Zoo, where we wanted to expand and were not sure whether to just focus on growing Zoo into a clothing brand or 'diversify' and create more skate brands (like 'World Industry' or 'Deluxe').
The classic third-world contrast of a deluxe hotel abutting an impoverished neighborhood seems not to faze local residents, for whom the project provided construction jobs, or the Palestinian leadership, who laud it as a symbol of national achievement.
