Guido Reni Angel of the Annunciation painting

Guido Reni Angel of the Annunciation paintingFrancois Boucher Venus Consoling Love paintingFrancois Boucher The Toilet of Venus painting
the hotel, where the arriving and departing vehicles seem to be those makes that retail for six figures, he leaves his car with valet parking. He tips the attendant twenty bucks, going in, because he’s not likely to be around long enough to spend all his cash on pleasures for himself.The sumptuous luxury of the lobby embraces him with such warmth of color, texture, and form that Dunny could easily forget that the night outside is cold and rainy.Richly deal. Connections are being secured here; money is being made; sexual excesses are being plotted.These people are energetic, optimistic, flirtatious, loud, and convinced of their immortality.In the manner that Cary Grant once navigated crowded parties in the movies, as though skating while everyone around him walked with leg weights, Dunny glides past the bar, among the paneled, expensively appointed, lighted for romance, a textbook on glamorous decor, the hotel bar is huge, but crowded in spite of its size.[213] Every woman in sight, regardless of age, is beautiful, by either the grace of God or the knife of a good surgeon. Half the men are as handsome as movie stars, and the other half think they are.Most of these people work in the entertainment industry. No actors, but agents and studio executives, publicists and producers.In another hotel, elsewhere in the city, you might hear several foreign tongues, but in this place only English is spoken, and only that narrow but colorful version of English known as the dialect of the