" The answer came with "The Bonfire of the Vanities.
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Each suite comes with a marble bathroom with double vanities.
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But why are all these blockbuster film vanities dominated by Clinique?
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Blinded by his vanities, Trump couldn't see the gift Obama offered.
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Dual mahogany vanities have granite counters and blue glass vessel sinks.
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Suites are furnished with European flair and hand-crafted antique vanities.
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They had flaws and foibles, vanities and neuroses, backstories and inner lives.
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Our grown-up bookshelves (and vanities) could use a little Disney magic.
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Its bathroom has two vanities, a soaking tub and a separate shower.
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The myriad base products stashed all over our vanities and bathroom countertops.
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Their en-suite baths have marble-topped vanities and tubs with showers.
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She is fundamentally covering herself, setting a bonfire of her own vanities.
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Brown is fundamentally covering herself, setting a bonfire of her own vanities.
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Lowe's: Sale items include major appliances, pre-lit Christmas trees, vanities, and tools.
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The largest bathroom has double vanities, a soaking tub and a separate shower.
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Bathrooms boast Italian marble vanities, deep soaking tubs, and plush bathrobes and slippers.
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Even with their seemingly infinite space, celebs including Kourtney Kardashian suffer from overstuffed vanities.
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Tom Hanks played a Wall Street investor in "The Bonfire of the Vanities" (1990).
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Befitting for influencers and wannabe influencers, rooms feature massive vanities to get ready at.
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They're probably more persons—much more than me—of their own vanities and vices.
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Meyer's seems to dominate so many middle-class vanities and kitchen counters these days.
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These rooms have built-in cupboards and desks; the bathrooms have custom mahogany vanities.
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It connects to two bathrooms, updated with marble tile and vanities, and clerestory windows.
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He uses each as a sounding board for his vanities, insecurities, delusions and fixations.
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All master bathrooms will have radiant floor heating, walnut suspended vanities and black marble counters.
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Unlike other Equinox locations, E Madison has personal vanities in the locker room for primping.
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Here are my takeaways: The summit of the vanities: This meeting wasn't about negotiating substance.
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Like all internetty things, this type of intelligence plays to the viewer's vanities and prejudices.
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To the left of the entryway was the bathroom, which comes with dual marble vanities ...
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The clear chairs were used everywhere, from dining rooms to vanities, and even home offices.
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They, too, are focused on their own image, the vanities associated with protocol and re-election.
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The Paris climate deal is one of the most prominent liberal/big government vanities in history.
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The adjacent bathroom has the original tub, shower and tile (the vanities and sinks are new).
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His and hers vanities make the master feel more like a private spa than a bathroom.
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Kirsten Dunst made her debut as Campbell McCoy in "The Bonfire of the Vanities" in 1990.
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He's even been responsible for a few massive flops (Bonfire of the Vanities, Mission to Mars).
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The game is more open than ever before, and has shrugged off the grim, shove-y macho vanities of previous generations in favor of ... well, not enlightenment, because this is still sports, but at the very least for a much more enlightened set of macho vanities.
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The text is drawn from Ecclesiastes 1:2 in the Bible: 'Vanity of vanities, is all vanity.
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Best known as the author of The Bonfire of the Vanities (1987) and The Painted Word (1975).
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It is open to its bathroom, which has floating wenge vanities and a walk-in glass shower.
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As most rom-coms do, What Women Want features a whole lot of products on various vanities.
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He had two masterpieces, "The Right Stuff" in nonfiction and "The Bonfire of the Vanities" in fiction.
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Rooms feature fireplaces, furnished outdoor terraces and bathrooms with a soaking tub, separate shower and dual vanities.
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They will be happy to sell display models at steep discounts — everything from vanities to toilet bowls.
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In some ways, Mr. Trump's New York is the city of the "Bonfire of the Vanities" set.
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"We primarily see male vanities but no elaborate strategy behind Conwert's actions," Petrus said in its statement.
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I loved that there were two vanities in the room, with one located outside the "real" bathroom.
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Upstairs, the vaulted master suite has an attached bathroom with dual vanities and a walk-in closet.
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Seeing inside the vanities of the rich and famous is equal parts incredibly fascinating and a total bummer.
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Writing this, quote, Bonfire of the Vanities, he could see the island of Manhattan off to the left.
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The master bathroom is done in reddish marble, with a soaking tub, a separate shower and two vanities.
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Although some tiny houses have full sinks and even vanities, others can only fit small appliances and fixtures.
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But he can't help but satirize the vanities of his career-minded characters, with their little wheelie suitcases.
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Two stand-alone sinks ensconced in chocolate-colored vanities sat across from each other, looking a bit scuffed.
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I would strongly recommend people read Tom Wolfe's "The Bonfire of the Vanities" to better understand this president.
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The master bedroom has an en suite bathroom with two vanities and a tiled, glass-enclosed double shower.
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This is clearly a bonfire of the vanities, and its title is "Portrait Surrounded by Artistic Devices" (1965).
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Money, status, all the vanities the preacher of Ecclesiastes described hold so little interest: a chasing after wind, indeed.
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But it was his first novel, "Bonfire of the Vanities," in 1987 that carried Wolfe into a new league.
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"Putting aside vanities and selfishness, practicing honesty, industriousness and decency, we will also be contributing to GDP," he said.
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She graduated from Hollywood High School and joined "Earl Carroll's Vanities," a musical revue featuring showgirls in skimpy costumes.
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It became the best known of many such fires, and usually gets uppercase status: the Bonfire of the Vanities.
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The marble master bath has two vanities, a pedestal tub, an open shower and double doors to the veranda.
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The marble-tiled master bathroom has a steam shower and separate tub flanked by double vanities and towel warmers.
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A curved staircase leads down to a spa with double vanities and stalls (including a urinal and a bidet).
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Koe understands her subjects — their vanities and vulnerabilities — well enough to invent scenes that are simultaneously believable and fantastical.
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It became the best-known of his many such fires, and gets uppercase status: the Bonfire of the Vanities.
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Both rooms open to the deck and share a bathroom with a shower, dual vanities and a washer/dryer.
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As she began reporting, Ayyub created an elaborate disguise, designed to appeal to the vanities of Gujarat's political establishment.
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And in 2019, Beckham is branching out again by translating her label from rich women's closets into bathroom vanities everywhere.
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We all seem to covet the products that populate their vanities and try our hardest to replicate iconic French style.
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But at home, too, they can intrude into lives, playing on people's fears or vanities, issuing threats or offering money.
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Three upstairs bedrooms share two baths, one with a tub, and the other with a shower; both have double vanities.
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") to rotten eggs like "Mission to Mars" (19893) and the notorious, picked-over 1990 turkey "The Bonfire of the Vanities.
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"Lots to do," she tells me, but adds that regularly cleaning the vanities and aisles is something they've always done.
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"Lots to do," she tells me, but adds that regularly cleaning the vanities and aisles is something they've always done.
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Tom Wolfe, the innovative journalist and author of "The Right Stuff" and "Bonfire of the Vanities," has died at 88.
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The author of The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test and The Bonfire of the Vanities was a pioneer of New Journalism.
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And while we're barely into fall, it's never too early to get your vanities ready for all that glitter and gold.
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Needless to say, we're ready to restock our vanities with the makeup, skin care, and hair must-haves of the season.
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Beyond the dining room, two additional bedrooms have private balconies and en-suite marble baths with double vanities and a shower.
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The first of those books, 1987's Bonfire of the Vanities, a memorable portrait of Manhattan decadence, was a great success.
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The bathrooms were resurfaced and retiled, while pewter sconces flanking some of the vanities were cleaned to remove layers of paint.
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In a primitive visual style and with chipperly voiced, subtitled narration, he spins fables of men brought low by their vanities.
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She picked up the keys to Downing Street at a time of unprecedented turmoil and amid the implosion of male vanities.
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VIACOM VANITIES If I could give a grade below F, it would go to all the parties in the Viacom mess.
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The United States imported some $4.4 billion worth of wooden cabinets, vanities and their components from China in 2018, the department said.
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No doubt he would have tried to talk to and spend time with Trump so he could understand his motivations and vanities.
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The double vanities provide lots of extra space and a TV ensures you won't miss your favorite shows during a bathroom break.
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" (NYT) • "'The Bonfire of the Vanities' wickedly dissected the Wall Street money-grubbing crowd who thought they were rulers of the universe.
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At the tables in the back, on the other hand, the restaurant's "Bonfire of the Vanities" alter ego comes to the fore.
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Their exploits were detailed in books from the Bonfire of the Vanities in the 1980s to the more recent The Big Short.
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The original front doors were repurposed as doors to the master bathroom, which has two vanities and a separate tub and shower.
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Of course, my conscience kicks in every now and then, making me feel bad for spending a lot of money for these vanities.
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If you're looking for a fresh start, here it is: dump out those cabinets, clear out the drawers, and sweep off the vanities.
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The Bonfire of the Vanities, published in 1987, also became an emblem of the excessive culture of New York City in the 1980s.
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The en-suite master bath is outfitted with two vanities and a skylight; the en-suite guest-room bath has a single sink.
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Since 2000, the comedy trio Unitard (Nora Burns, David Ilku, and Mike Albo) has wickedly anatomized the vanities of New York's lefty bourgeoisie.
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Wolfe, the author of "The Bonfire of the Vanities" and "The Right Stuff," died at age 88 after being hospitalized with an infection.
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A church that largely recoils from embracing difference can do nothing when it comes to protecting the earth from human abuses and vanities.
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As Bonnén explains, many of the products we use sit on our vanities or in our bathroom cabinets for way longer than necessary.
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His designs on Independence Day call to mind those sorts of leaders: their vanities, shamelessness and equation of national interest with self-interest.
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While she may have been prey to womanly vanities, she defied the natural order of her gender by having no husband or children.
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The master bathroom has twin stone-topped vanities and a sunken bathtub under a projecting greenhouse window that looks out to a private courtyard.
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At a time when Instagram was just taking off, it felt like an authentic (and literal) peek into the bathroom vanities of aspirational people.
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While most of our vanities today look like smorgasbord of unmatched bottles that are barely even aesthetic pleasing, she always had the sweetest stash.
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That is particularly true on Wall Street, where punctured vanities can quickly harm a firm, as productive bankers head for the exits in droves.
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There's also a large private terrace as well as a bathroom with double vanities, a separate tub and walk-in, step-up rainfall shower.
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" And, the second: "Trump is what he is, a floundering, inarticulate jumble of gnawing insecurities and not-at-all compensating vanities, which is pathetic.
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Wolfe, an innovative journalist and author of masterpieces such as "The Bonfire of the Vanities" and "The Right Stuff," died May 14 at 88.
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Vanities are the bane of all deliverymen, managing to be both bulky, weighing hundreds of pounds, and delicate, with easily scratched or nicked tops.
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With everything from major appliances like refrigerators and stoves to bathroom items like vanities, faucets, and toilets, you'll find what you need for less.
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They are supposed to be above vanities like grooming: They're supposed to be clean, but they aren't supposed to care about how they look.
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The young artist joined in a "bonfire of the vanities" instigated by the preacher, throwing his own early drawings of nudes into the flames.
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In the master bath are a Jacuzzi tub with a black marble surround, a separate shower and twin vanities with a creamy marble countertop.
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Vanities are the bane of all deliverymen, managing to be both bulky, weighing hundreds of pounds, and delicate, with easily scratched or nicked tops.
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It's hard to see Iran playing along with Trump's summit of vanities -- and it's hard to see what trade-offs would satisfy both sides.
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Staff members have so internalized their boss's vanities and petty grudges that they scurry to avoid anything that might offend his sense of self.
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They installed hardwood flooring where it was lacking; V-groove paneling, open shelves and Carrara marble counters in the kitchen; and new bathroom vanities.
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The carpeted master suite has a newly renovated bathroom with two vanities, a free-standing soaking tub and a shower enclosed by glass block.
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Like Tom Wolfe's "The Bonfire of the Vanities" or William Thackeray's "Vanity Fair", this is a novel that captures the raucous spirit of its age.
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The glass bottles decorating our dressers and vanities aren't just aesthetic layers to add and remove but a story we tell the world about ourselves.
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Tom Wolfe, the white suit–wearing author of classic works like The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test and The Bonfire of the Vanities, has died.
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His novels like The Bonfire of the Vanities — a 1987 satirical novel about greed, racism, and class in New York City — also won him acclaim.
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"Bonfire of the Vanities" (1987) captured the spirit of Manhattan in the 1980s—and became a commercial success and cultural lightning rod as a result.
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Two additional bedrooms and bathrooms (including one with double vanities, marble floor tiles and brass fixtures) are above the main floor, on the mezzanine level.
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The master bathroom has two walk-in closets, a pair of vanities and sinks separated by a large glass shower, and more white oak cabinetry.
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After each workout, I sprinted past the sinks and vanities in the locker room so I couldn't get sucked into a staring contest with myself.
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Twin master bedrooms on either side of the landing have dressing rooms, closets and en suite baths with soaking tubs, separate showers and double vanities.
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There's a queen bed with elaborate pillow landscaping, a leather couch, and an expansive bathroom with twin vanities, one on each side of the bathroom wall.
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Katie Stout dazzled Nina Johnson Gallery (formerly Gallery Diet) with her show, Docile/Domicile/Dandy: bubblegum-pink Sculptamold vanities, shiny plush chairs, a sock-covered armoire.
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Her film credits also include "Ada" (1961), "The Bonfire of the Vanities" (1990) and the stoner comedy "Pineapple Express," in which she played James Franco's grandmother.
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On the other side of the makeup aisle, I can see the bottles of hand sanitizer on vanities where the store's artists do makeovers for customers.
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On the other side of the makeup aisle, I can see the bottles of hand sanitizer on vanities where the store's artists do makeovers for customers.
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To insure he'd finish his big, joyful and neon-lit first novel, "The Bonfire of the Vanities" (1987), he arranged for Rolling Stone to serialize it.
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I was given a brief tour of the room, which opened up to a small entryway flanked by sink vanities on either side of the door.
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Ahead, meet the buyers and explore the products that have earned a spot not only on the sites they work for, but their personal vanities, too.
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Using tapes of interviews before she died in 2130, the documentary is imbued with Guggenheim's presence, even as art-world denizens dish on her foibles and vanities.
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Not to mention, the sparkly silver silicone looks a hell of a lot better than the dirty pink sponge we've had on our vanities since last year.
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Ben Carson's $31,000 dining set, Ryan Zinke's secretarial flag, Scott Pruitt's 18-man security detail, and private jets all round, were imitations of Mr Trump's greater vanities.
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Using tapes of interviews before she died in 1979, the documentary is imbued with Guggenheim's presence, even as art-world denizens dish on her foibles and vanities.
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Both bedrooms have operable glass transoms over their paneled doors, and both bathrooms have black-and-white-honeycomb tiled floors, marble-topped vanities and walk-in showers.
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Tom Wolfe, the critically acclaimed, bestselling journalist and novelist behind "The Right Stuff" and "The Bonfire of the Vanities," died on Monday at the age of 88.
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The auction features bottles, powder boxes, and other vanities from the 1850s to the 1950s, with starting bids ranging from $200 all the way up to $10,000.
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In 1990, after The Times wrote about socialites auditioning for roles as socialites for the film version of Tom Wolfe's novel "The Bonfire of the Vanities," Mrs.
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The stories suggest that he is an ordinary corporate bureaucrat — with all the petty vanities and the lack of interest in ideas that go with the type.
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Instances of blatant narcissism, however, are at odds with what we expect of older adults, who have supposedly shed the petty, puerile vanities of the developing ego.
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All three masks have earned top-shelf status in the vanities of IG influencers everywhere, but still, fans begged Hewitt and Gores Ireland for something beyond aluminum.
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A sliding barn-style door provides access to the master bathroom, which has two marble-topped vanities, a free-standing bathtub and a separate walk-in shower.
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The master bathroom, tiled in stone, has a section of transparent ceiling and two vanities, and connects to a large walk-in closet with a dressing area.
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For now, we'll just make some room on our vanities and get ready for the Killwatt Foil Palette, which will be available worldwide on October 12 at fentybeauty.
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And while the sudden change in temperature marks the official call for a closet swap — see ya in six months, cutoffs — the same goes for our vanities, too.
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New features include gray lacquer vanities with stainless-steel legs and marble tops, lacquer-and-mirror medicine cabinets, and custom faucets and hardware designed specifically for the project.
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The image was created in 1987 by the perfect storm of Tom Wolfe's novel "Bonfire of the Vanities" and Oliver Stone's film "Wall Street," and proved astonishingly durable.
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There's more than a little of The Bonfire of the Vanities in Lake Success's literary DNA—both its bleak view of the wealthy and its sprawling social criticism.
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Emblematic of a typical Modernist blindness to symbols, they evoke less a reckoning of fragility, of tempus fugit and earthly vanities, than a fascination with elusive, shifting shapes.
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The master suite is on the ground floor and has two closets and a bathroom with two marble-topped vanities, a free-standing tub and a separate shower.
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Siwa's master bedroom on the second floor has two custom closets, a fireplace and private patio, along with a master bathroom with double vanities and a floating tub.
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" But when it comes to highlighting "the vanities and almost eerie distraction of Trump's consciousness," Mr. Remnick said, "satire brought that out a lot better than news stories.
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There's also a sauna, steam room, lounge with fruit and tea, showers, vanities with outlets, and everything else you'd need to put yourself together after an afternoon of rest.
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Upstairs, the cozy abode features a master suite with a fireplace, two walk-in closets, a dressing room, and a master bathroom with a soaking tub and double vanities.
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Get ready to fill your vanities and bathroom cabinets to the brim because the best Labor Day sales are all going down in the makeup and skin-care aisles.
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Although Queen Victoria might not necessarily approve, blush has survived the onslaught of strobing highlighters and contouring kits to make its full return to our vanities without a hitch.
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Lamps Plus:Get 103% off on table lamps, pendants, floor lamps, chandeliers, ceiling lights and fans, stools, mirrors, vanities, outdoor lighting, fountains, and more from August 28 through October 1.
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His sinuous, biomorphic chairs, tables, desks, pianos, clocks and vanities, which resembled giant teeth, a human tongue, elephants' feet and human forms, started as freestyle drawings on rag paper.
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They find themselves competing for McBurney's favor as he sets about manipulating their vanities and insecurities, smiling like a tomcat who has stumbled into a cage full of canaries.
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There are two bedrooms on this level, including a sunny master with a vaulted ceiling and exposed beams, as well as two full bathrooms with generous marble-topped vanities.
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" This gave her credibility with all sides in the roiling debates of the day, Ms. Faludi said, allowing her to bridge divides "between generations, geographies, ideologies, intersectional quarrels, vanities.
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" This gave her credibility with all sides in the roiling debates of the day, Ms. Faludi said, allowing her to bridge divides "between generations, geographies, ideologies, intersectional quarrels, vanities.
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Each modern impeachment saga — of Richard M. Nixon, Bill Clinton and now Mr. Trump — has been shaped not by grievances over policy differences, but by human vanities and appetites.
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If you've kept up with the Kardashians over the years, then you've seen their impressive makeup vanities and definitely caught a glimpse at the clear stacked organizer in Kim's bathroom.
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That being said, there are still products that have risen above the pack — the ones we stash in the top drawers of our vanities or in our daily makeup bags.
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I was disappointed by "City on Fire" — there was so much hype, and a "Bonfire of the Vanities" reboot about New York in the '70s sounded right up my alley.
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The Dubai-based airline is known for offering incredible amenities like chauffeur service, Dom Perignon Champagne, and enclosed suites with personal vanities and mini-bars in its first-class cabin.
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In 1987, Wolfe released his first novel, the hugely successful "Bonfire of the Vanities," a satire of greed, politics and racism backdropped by the hyper-consumption of 1980s New York.
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Thanking the sales associate who helped me, I head toward the vanities to slather the sanitizer on my hands and jawbone to remove the makeup I feel guilty for trying.
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Thanking the sales associate who helped me, I head toward the vanities to slather the sanitizer on my hands and jawbone to remove the makeup I feel guilty for trying.
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Cromwell keeps a secret Book of Henry, a kind of customized version of Machiavelli's "The Prince," in which he can devise strategies for coping with his monarch's vanities and moods.
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You'll get the same renovated feel with a sophisticated, soothing neutral color palette, and the sleek striped marble bathroom, a 65-inch TV, marble minibar, backlit vanities, and curated art.
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Upstairs is a master suite with carved pocket doors that open into a bathroom with a walk-in shower and soaking tub in the center and vanities on opposite walls.
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And the constant spending we do in the beauty aisle doesn't just take a toll on our budgets, it also crowds our bathroom cabinets and vanities with an abundance of products.
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In fictional accounts of high finance—in Tom Wolfe's novel, "The Bonfire of the Vanities", or "Wall Street", directed by Oliver Stone—the courts ultimately bring the biggest egos crashing down.
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After testing what ended up being hundreds of formulas, we've finally narrowed our vanities down to the very best, the products that stuck around through snowstorms and heat waves, 3 a.m.
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Since then, the genre's influence has carried over from the Bronx playgrounds to Fashion Week runways, big and small screens, and basically everywhere else you can think of... including our vanities.
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More efficient options were not, however, as available in all the other shapes consumers desire, such as the round bulbs used above bathroom vanities or flatter ones used for recessed lighting.
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LEVEL "Start with a two-footer, because it's the right size to help level and plumb projects like floating shelves, pictures, kitchen cabinets, bathroom vanities and patio pavers," Mr. Vaglica said.
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Star also pointed to an empty barn on his property, which he said would be turned into a "beauty barn" complete with a hair studio, a nail salon, and makeup vanities.
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In Frank's view, liberal policy wonks are part of the problem, members of a well-educated elite that massages its own technocratic vanities while utterly missing the big question of the day.
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This brand of realism—Guadagnino's use of the camera as a kind of nervous system, susceptible to human obsessions, vanities, and contradictions—illuminates, among other things, his mature approach to the erotic.
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Story follows character, as the Greeks knew, and what we're seeing now with the Bonfire of Republican Vanities is the predictable outcome of those who enabled the amoral presidency of Donald Trump.
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Wesley W. Wilson, Jr., the pastor of Second Canaan Baptist Church in Harlem, which is replacing its former home with a new church and a residential condo with finishes like walnut vanities.
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The large master suite has a fireplace, a laundry room, a walk-in closet and a bathroom with five windows, two granite-topped vanities, a soaking tub and a glass-walled shower.
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Inside, apartments will be completed with materials meant to project warmth and texture, including rusticated wood floors and master bathrooms with dark marble floors, walnut-and-bronze vanities and aged brass fittings.
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We've seen their bodies hosed down and patched up, but nothing explains why they wake up with perfect waves, highlighted skin, and smudgy eyeliner — without a single product laid out on their vanities.
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From the family room, a circular staircase rises to the office, which is part of a second-floor master suite; the master bathroom has double vanities, large closets and a walk-in shower.
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I'm still not sure what that thing was, or what it meant — all I can say is that I felt unimportant and totally liberated from the petty vanities that normally dominate my consciousness.
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The abode also features two windowed master bathrooms featuring marble walls and floors, marble vanities with 22-inch oval sinks, custom wood cabinetry, a free-standing soaking tub, a separate shower and heated floors.
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For us, it means revamping our vanities and makeup bags as if Marie Kondo herself were watching over us, as we ask ourselves if all 50 of our red lipsticks really do spark joy.
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While many of us lustfully pin images of pristine vanities and countertops stocked with Byredo perfume bottles and wiped-clean Diptyque candle jars holding clean makeup brushes, our realities are rarely so picture-perfect.
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The master bedroom has a walk-in closet and an en-suite bathroom outfitted with a soaking tub, a wall-mounted bidet, double vanities, a double rain shower, radiant floor heating and Hansgrohe fixtures.
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During hard times, we call our friends, binge-watch nostalgic shows, and cry into our wine — and that all helps — but some of the best pick-me-ups, we've found, are also on our vanities.
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The loftlike dining room still looked so much like 1985 that it could have served as a set for "The Bonfire of the Vanities," in the unlikely event that any studio wanted to remake it.
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Pottery Barn Teen: Save 225% off your order using code WHATWHAT; plus, save 22% off favorite bedding, 2000% off vanities, 220% off storage beds, 223% to 222% off desks & desk seating, 250% off all sectionals.
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His first try at fiction was "The Bonfire of the Vanities" in 1987, which captured the cultural feel of free-wheeling Wall Street "masters of the universe" as well as his non-fiction books did.
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The master suite has a dressing area and a large bathroom with two concrete vanities, a tub and three floor-to-ceiling glass arches; the center arch is a door opening to another shaded patio.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Washington's latest accusation that China is dumping wooden cabinets and vanities on U.S. shores sums up the mood between the two warring sides as they head into another round of high-level discussions.
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He hadn't unveiled his "Bonfire of the Vanities" collection yet, but if he had I would have been thinking of it: sometimes you have to burn it all down and start over with everything. ♦
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Today's reading is from "The Bonfire of the Vanities," by Tom Wolfe: The telephone blasted Peter Fallow awake inside an egg with the shell peeled away and only the membranous sac holding it intact. Ah!
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"The Bonfire of the Vanities" is remembered not just for its piercing analysis of the greed and hypocrisy of the '80s, but also for that reflection from Sherman on how easy it is to lose everything.
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As a founder of New Journalism in the 1960s and the author of sprawling social novels beginning with "The Bonfire of the Vanities," in 1987, Wolfe has cast a big shadow on generations of American writers.
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It's a fascinating idea that what we see in a given situation often reveals as much about our own selves — our quirks and prejudices and vanities — as it does about the thing we are looking at.
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WASHINGTON, Feb 24 (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Commerce on Monday said it had determined that wooden cabinets and vanities imported from China have been sold at less than fair market value in the United States.
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Wolfe then abandoned journalism—"The Right Stuff" was his last nonfiction novel—to produce the kind of novel that he had been criticizing novelists for not writing, beginning with "The Bonfire of the Vanities," in 1987.
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Spring may be synonymous with ridding our closets of last-season's fad we just had to have (RIP fuzzy teddy-bear coats), but when it comes to our vanities, we've been known to do quite the opposite.
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In classic Hollywood movies, women are always shown wrapped up in silk robes in front of their vanities, powdering their noses and lining their lips in bright red before stepping into their glamorous outfits for the evening.
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The materials include wide-plank oak floors, gray larch wood Bulthaup kitchen cabinets with White Princess quartzite counters, and master bathrooms with eucalyptus wood vanities and walls clad in Taj Mahal quartzite with a leather-textured finish.
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His most recent Moschino show, in February, was titled "Bonfire of the Vanities"—a reference not to the Tom Wolfe novel but to the original one, in Renaissance Florence, when religious fanatics burned books, cosmetics, and art.
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But pear-shaped bulbs make up only about half of the bulbs in U.S. households; what about the globe-shaped bulbs common over bathroom vanities, the cone-shaped bulbs in recessed lights, or the flame-shaped candelabra models?
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But the city's lagging response to a serious infrastructural problem as it prioritized more conspicuously impressive forms of development speaks to the much larger issue — the near constant capitulation to vanities and greed over submission to drearier obligations.
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There are teak and leather chairs (by Noir Furniture), wood bed frames with spindly legs, period prints hung here and there, live plants and terrazzo night stands that reflect the terrazzo vanities in the black-and-white bathrooms.
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As far-fetched as this may sound to any reasonable person, one must always remember that Trump isn't a reasonable person or even a particularly smart one, which makes him the perfect vessel for Bannon's pseudo-intellectual vanities.
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"We will either function as a team without personal vanities and promoting of personal agendas and we will have results or I do not have to be the Prime Minister," Brnabic said according to Tanjug, without giving further details.
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Our editors have spent the past few weeks testing all of the latest and greatest hair, makeup, and skin-products at Sephora, in an attempt to determine which ones are worth the trip back home and onto our vanities.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Commerce Department said on Wednesday it had initiated an anti-dumping duty and countervailing duty investigation of wooden cabinets and vanities imported from China to determine whether they are being dumped on the U.S. market.
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Moj Mahdara, the C.E.O. of Beautycon, a multicity cosmetics festival, has a more feel-good approach to the multibillion-dollar beauty industry that Rubinstein helped launch, which continues to insure that girls (and boys) keep raiding their mothers' vanities.
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When I saw him flying down Fifth Avenue on his trusty bicycle, flitting from event to runway, like a kingfisher on crack, relentlessly documenting the vanities of New York City, I often used to speculate about his inner dialogue.
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"She's created a bonfire of the vanities — that kind of excitement, passion and tragedy," said Dodie Kazanjian, founding director of Gallery Met, the nonprofit contemporary-art space at the Metropolitan Opera, who tapped Ms. Brown to make the paintings.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. International Trade Commission said on Tuesday it made a final determination that dumped and subsidized imports of wood cabinets and vanities from China were harming American producers, locking in steep U.S. tariffs for five years.
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BELGRADE (Reuters) - Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabic said she may resign from the coalition government if "personal vanities" were not put aside, accusing her colleagues of failing to work as a team, a state-run news agency reported on Tuesday.
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The preliminary findings by the trade panel mean the U.S. Commerce Department will move ahead with an investigation into whether Chinese wooden cabinets, vanities and components are unfairly subsidized or sold in the U.S. market at less than fair value.
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He eventually worked with Martin Scorsese (on the documentary about The Band's final live performance, The Last Waltz) as well as Michael Cimino (The Deer Hunter and Heaven's Gate) and Brian de Palma (Blow Out and The Bonfire of the Vanities).
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The sounding board for more than half a million subscribers is the place to be for everything from sharing customer-service experiences with niche beauty brands and seeing how people organize their vanities to garnering constructive criticism on cut-crease techniques.
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Coates has worked on such projects as Lawrence of Arabia, Murder on the Orient Express and Erin Brockovich, while Stalmaster was casting director on films like Frankie and Johnny and The Bonfire of the Vanities and Fiddler on the Roof.
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I enjoyed "The Devil's Candy," Julie Salamon's account of the making of the Brian De Palma-directed adaptation of Tom Wolfe's novel "The Bonfire of the Vanities;" and Garson Kanin's novel "Smash," about the creation of a fictionalized Broadway show.
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On the other side of the entrance hall is a media room with arched windows and a master bedroom with a dressing area and a colorfully tiled en suite bathroom with dual vanities, a private commode and indoor and outdoor showers.
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WASHINGTON, March 24 (Reuters) - The U.S. International Trade Commission said on Tuesday it had made a final determination that subsidized imports of wood cabinets and vanities from China were harming American producers, locking in tariffs for a period of five years.
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Thus, the largest land creatures on earth, which are thought by some to mourn the deaths of other elephants, were being killed by the tens of thousands every year for whatever human vanities could be satisfied by trinkets and baubles.
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According to its Trulia listing, the five-bedroom, four-and-a-half-bathroom home measures 3,800 square feet and has multiple fireplaces, a chef's kitchen with an island, a huge walk-in closet, and a dressing room with two custom lighted vanities.
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"There's going to be a clash of vanities, a clash of egos, and who knows where it will end," said Juan Jose Rodriguez Prats, a former party colleague, friend and later adversary of Lopez Obrador who has known him for 40 years.
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Still, the nightstick-to-the-knees brand of urban politics, famously parodied in Tom Wolfe's 1987 novel "The Bonfire of the Vanities," is sharply at odds with what most Republicans believe is needed to win a general election in an increasingly diverse country.
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The bedroom has a door to the backyard patio, as well as a connected dressing room with his-and-hers walk-in closets and a bathroom with a marble floor, free-standing soaking tub, walk-in shower and two long L-shaped vanities.
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It is there in "Tyll" and "Measuring," but also in his modern-day novels, such as "Me and Kaminski" (2003), "Fame" (2009) and "F" (2013), where the vanities of artists, actors, writers and businessmen are exposed by their appetite for outlandish quests.
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Their names change from book to book, but their identities are the same: the husband a French professor who becomes a minor hero of the downtown scene, the wife an unsuccessful artist but an astute observer of art-world and academic vanities.
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On the second floor are four bedrooms with attached bathrooms, including a master with walk-in closets on either side of a decorative fireplace, a changing room and a bathroom with twin marble-topped vanities, a soaking tub and a multispray slate shower.
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The brand's fresh new launch, an oil-based makeup remover, just dropped online today — and you can bet the pink-capped, G-stamped plastic dropper is about to solidify a spot on the vanities and in the makeup bags of girls with great skin everywhere.
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He showed a collection of very ladies-who-lunch clothing at Doubles, the sumptuous red private club in the basement of uptown's Sherry-Netherland Hotel, which was founded in the Bonfire of the Vanities era by a group including Patricia Buckley and Nan Kempner.
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This time his theme was the Bonfire of the Vanities — not the Tom Wolfe book, but the actual Italian rebellion of 1497, whence the book took its name, when followers of a Florentine priest burned thousands of objects they identified as representing temptation and sin.
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And Wolfe who called Wall Street traders "Masters of the Universe" in his brilliant novel "Bonfire of the Vanities" which like most of his writing was a fictional look at the rich and poor divide in the Bronx based on actual deep dive reporting.
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While it sounds dark, CNN reports that the phrase, which can sometimes be represented through various objects like skulls, is intended to get people thinking about their own mortality and the importance of living a meaningful life void of too many materialistic attachments or vanities.
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In 1497, the fanatical monk Savonarola sent his followers door to door to gather the city's nonreligious art, books, clothing, musical instruments, then piled it all 50 feet high in the central square and set it on fire: the infamous Bonfire of the Vanities.
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By now, the merely wealthy were long weary of the vanities and self-certainty of the very rich, and if the narrative that was playing out at St. Bernard's seemed provincial, it spoke to broader frustrations with entitlement shared even among the immensely privileged.
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At competitively lavish weddings and charity events, and at restaurants like Le Cirque or La Goulue, the arrangements were epically overscale, not unlike the hair, shoulder pads and spending habits of the women who populated this "Bonfire of the Vanities" version of New York.
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From lust-worthy lipsticks housed in shiny, golden bullet cases to decadent eyeshadow palettes filled with mesmerizing colors, each product feels more like a piece of art that belongs behind glass at a museum than a beauty product we can display on our humble vanities.
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So while we won't be packing away our winter wardrobes just yet, we will be warming our spaces up with an assortment of stylish and unique home buys — from woven-rattan bed frames to vibrant velvet poufs, soft modern lounge chairs, rustic mango-wood vanities, and more.
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Trump and Rouhani: Summit of the vanities With this President, it's impossible to know whether his warming to the idea of a meeting with Iran's president represents a strategic shift of some kind or just another confusing and contradictory day in the life of the Trump presidency.
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There is one bedroom on the ground level; three additional bedrooms are on the second floor, including a master suite with two closets and a bathroom updated with marble hexagon floor tile, a free-standing soaking tub, a tiled shower, two vanities and a dressing table.
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If one were to characterize "London Fields" further, one might add that it's a comic murder mystery, an apocalyptic satire, a scatological meditation on love and death and nuclear winter — "Bonfire of the Vanities" crossed with "Gravity's Rainbow," as narrated by Al Goldstein and Jonathan Swift.
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After Medina put the finishing touches on one half of Digna's face, leaving her with candy-red lips and four pairs of lashes, he announced that it was time for the students to recreate the look on themselves at the Old Hollywood-style vanities at each of their stations.
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When I miss him, I find comfort—just as I did forty-four years ago, when he first left me behind—in his perfect, constant, undiminished presence in my imagination; his voice in my head, anytime I want it; his opinions, his jokes, his enthusiasms and vanities and lies.
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Everybody on Wall Street knows Tom Wolfe's 1987 novel, "Bonfire of the Vanities," which is a remarkable description of the culture and temper of the New York financial world in the 1980s — especially relevant now in Trumpworld as figures from that era take greater and greater national prominence.
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Paul Manafort, Rudolph Giuliani, former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr.'s son Hunter and Hillary Clinton have all, at one time or another, found their way there, escorted by Ukrainian guides with deep pockets and a keen sense of how to appeal to their vanities, ambitions and greed.
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Here are the books discussed by The Times's critics this week: "The Bonfire of the Vanities" by Tom Wolfe "When Einstein Walked With Gödel" by Jim Holt "The Restless Wave" by John McCain We would love to hear your thoughts about this episode, and about the Book Review's podcast in general.
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Considering that the markdowns are so low even La Mer seems within reach, it's impossible to deny that now is a better time than any to give in to the hype, open your wallet, and invest in the kind of beauty products editors and pros keep on their vanities like little trophies.
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Release date: June 10 Director: Noah Baumbach, Jake Paltrow What it is: This documentary biography about filmmaker Brian De Palma examines the work of a director who's most consistent in his inconsistency, vacillating wildly between terrific movies (Carrie, Blow Out) and movies that fall far short of the mark (Bonfire of the Vanities).
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Wolfe did a good deal of research for "Bonfire of the Vanities," a novel about what happens after a bond trader on the way back to Manhattan from J.F.K. Airport takes a wrong turn at night in the Bronx and, after a confrontation, accidentally hits a young black man with his car.
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The whole point of this big, new agenda that we're launching, the humane agenda, is to say that we need to move from this disconnected set of grievances and scandals, that these problems are seemingly separate: tech addiction, polarization, outrage-ification of culture, the rise in vanities, micro-celebrity culture, everyone has to be famous.
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In the 1980s, New York started to change and Donald Trump, like a celebrity Zelig, was there at the epicenter of the burgeoning city's newly rich bonfire of the vanities — a flashy scrum of brash politicians, celebrities, athletes and artists who had come to the city drawn by ambition and the lure of money.
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"Together they attacked what each regarded as the greatest untold and uncovered story of the age: the vanities, extravagances, pretensions and artifice of America two decades after World War II, the wealthiest society the world had ever known," Richard Kluger wrote in "The Paper: The Life and Death of the New York Herald Tribune" (287).
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In addition to a pastel-and-gold-tinted communal workspace and a library with books (yes, there's a copy of Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own) arranged by color, the Wing provides its 400 members with on-demand blowouts, a lactation room, and vanities stocked with trendy beauty products from partners including Glossier, Diptyque, and Ouai Haircare.
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Album | The City That Stared Back 12 Photos View Slide Show ' New York in the mid-1980s was a city braced for powerful forces: the swaggering yuppiedom of "Bonfire of the Vanities" and Oliver Stone's "Wall Street" (both 1987); the AIDS epidemic and the crack wars; the graffiti boom and the golden age of New York hip-hop.
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This whole section of the show calls to mind Tom Wolfe's classic '80s New York novel The Bonfire of the Vanities, but flipped on its ear, so it's no longer about a handsome business exec who becomes embroiled in a situation that only underlines how little he knows of the world beyond his safe, expensive home.
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She has a good ear for talk, and a fine eye for detail; at one point she makes the slightly hallucinatory discovery that the recently elected Brooklyn D.A., Eric Gonzalez, chose his career path after reading Tom Wolfe's " The Bonfire of the Vanities " as a teen-ager—not an obvious book to point someone on a path toward public service.
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I didn't consciously model my first novel, "Turn of the Century," on Mr. Wolfe's first novel, "The Bonfire of the Vanities," but I was a middle-aged magazine journalist, and it was a big, panoramic social comedy set in New York about the media and rich people and failure, so when half the reviews and articles compared it to "Bonfire," I just shut up and smiled.
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But it's hard not to think that if it had been written by, say, Mr. Eugenides or Jonathan Franzen — any man of a certain kind, in fact — it would have been treated in the same vein as Mr. Franzen's "The Corrections" or Tom Wolfe's "The Bonfire of the Vanities," as a kind of meta-commentary about the way we (at least some of us) live now in America.
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Tom Wolfe, best known in art circles for his scathing satire of High Modernism, The Painted Word (1975), and another that tackled Modern architecture, From Bauhaus to Our House (1981), was an important American writer who penned such widely read books as The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (1968), The Right Stuff (1979), and The Bonfire of the Vanities (1987), all of which were made into major motion pictures.
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For Brian De Palma, he shot "Obsession" (21973), an eerie kidnap mystery with John Lithgow, Cliff Robertson and Geneviève Bujold; "The Bonfire of the Vanities" (21980), a calamitous adaptation of Tom Wolfe's novel of New York City in the 21990s; and "The Black Dahlia" (22009), a crime story derived from a real life murder, for which Mr. Zsigmond's images of Los Angeles in 19303 — suggestive of film noir, though shot in color — earned an Oscar nomination.
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