Word: rooftops
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Demmer (James Russo), a tirading troglodyte in a three-piece suit who has made a pathetic slave of the billionaire. While muttering such maxims as "Truth is a dead man's secret," Angel zigzags through encounters with craven executives, junkies and a malevolent dwarf bartender toward a fatal rooftop rendezvous with Demmer...
...eight giant vertical masts, will be of steel and aluminum, with translucent panels that will give the structure a traditional Japanese air. The exterior alone could cost $200 million. There was a cost overrun on an $87 million contract with British Steel for girders strong enough to support a rooftop landing pad for a helicopter. Foundation construction has begun, and some $460 million in contracts have already been let. But steel has yet to rise to a point where it can be seen above the fenced-off building site on landfill in Hong Kong harbor...
...Hart building--led by Sen. William Proximate (D. Wise.)--have outspokenly tried to explain. The building is just too opulent, too extravagant, they claim. In the midst of a severe economic slump, how can they justify moving in to a structure with white marble, bronze elevator doors and rooftop tennis courts? How would they explain to constituents visiting their offices--if they could find them in the maze of facilities...
...Jahn's winning landmark tapers to a large pinnacle topped by a spire. The corners surge to the top in five stepped leaps. The pinnacle will contain an observation deck and a rooftop restaurant. The building, turned 45° on its square site, has four lOO-ft.-high corner entrances that lead to a ten-story shopping and festival arcade...
...hotel's twelve-room Royal Suite, where Jimmy Carter and a dozen Secret Service men spent two days last spring as guests of French industrialists, runs around $5,000 a night at the present favorable rate of exchange. It has a private rooftop garden, bulletproof windows, private telex machines, Reuters and Agence France-Presse news bulletins, an electronic device that guarantees the phones are not bugged, dining and conference chambers, and a bar at the entrance to each living room. The Thousand and One Nights Suite, a triplex with a chic little swimming pool, costs $1,455 a night...