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  • Decadence, Decadence, Decadence is the downfall of our society.

    Levin swears repeatedly at Goldman hearing 2010

  • Decadence is supposed to be elegant, after all — that's part of the whole point.

    Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it Matthew Guerrieri 2008

  • Decadence is supposed to be elegant, after all — that's part of the whole point.

    Archive 2008-05-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2008

  • Gay businessman Ben Elliott - who left the Atlanta area immediately after the controversial closing of popular gay bar Hoedown's last year - was arrested Wednesday on federal charges of wire fraud Will Gustav Ruin Southern Decadence?

    unknown title 2008

  • Gay businessman Ben Elliott - who left the Atlanta area immediately after the controversial closing of popular gay bar Hoedown's last year - was arrested Wednesday on federal charges of wire fraud Will Gustav Ruin Southern Decadence?

    unknown title 2008

  • Gay businessman Ben Elliott - who left the Atlanta area immediately after the controversial closing of popular gay bar Hoedown's last year - was arrested Wednesday on federal charges of wire fraud Will Gustav Ruin Southern Decadence?

    unknown title 2008

  • Gay businessman Ben Elliott - who left the Atlanta area immediately after the controversial closing of popular gay bar Hoedown's last year - was arrested Wednesday on federal charges of wire fraud Will Gustav Ruin Southern Decadence?

    unknown title 2008

  • In the final months of his life, the bedridden “guru of Peking”—now sporting a long white beard and the silk robes of a mandarin—amused himself by writing a “memoir” of his affair with the Empress titled Decadence Mandchoue.

    Devil Dog David Talbot 2010

  • I saw a posting today on the WeightWatcher board about a wine called Decadence by Rush Creek Wines south of London, ON :

    Archive 2006-07-01 Teena in Toronto 2006

  • I teach a course called Daughters of Decadence which is really an Edwardian course (though I cheat a little by putting Emily Dickinson into it since her first vilume of poems came out 1890.)

    Nicola Cornick, author of The Last Rake in London | Edwardian Promenade 2008

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