The Goldman signifies a time when normally ironic statements were almost deadly serious, when decking out your mansion like Tutankhamun's tomb was a sound way to telegraph your status, and if you wanted to appear like a person of substance all you had to do was squint all the time. That time was the mid-1980s. We are again perhaps in an age when people are trying to be serious in very unserious ways. If you are down to party, we put some jewellery on your shoes.

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