Word: aspenization
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...Credit Society. To graybeards raised in a cash economy, the proliferation of goods and services that can be bought with credit is even more startling. Houses, cars, furniture, appliances, airline tickets barely begin the list. Rents at the Promenade Apartments in Los Angeles, ski-lift tickets in Aspen, Colo., taxi rides in St. Louis, veterinary services in Jacksonville, and treatment in the emergency rooms of Atlanta's hospitals can all be charged on credit cards. So can admission to a nudist camp in Yugoslavia, birth-control counseling by Planned Parenthood of Pittsburgh and funerals conducted by the Parkside Memorial...
...model run, Chapin plans some changes. A.M.C. will introduce a new luxury compact to compete with such cars as the Ford Granada and Dodge Aspen, and will give the Pacer a peppier engine. The Gremlin already comes with an option of a fuel-miserly four-cylinder power plant. The company, Chapin told shareholders, remains committed to small cars; he prophesied that the U.S. "will be a small-car nation by the 1980s...
There was little snow on the slopes above Aspen, Colo., last week, but the skiers in the chic resort had plenty to take their minds off the discouragingly good weather. Down in the Pitkin County courthouse, the likes of Jack Nicholson shared a front bench with newsmen from papers as far away as London. In the back of the crowded room, spectators stood on piles of law books and craned their necks to catch a glimpse of the defendant. Claudine Longet, 34, one of the town's beautiful people, was on trial for shooting her ski-ace lover, Vladimir...
...event, like Aspen itself, brought together the worlds of big-buck entertainment and world-class skiing. The waiflike, French-born defendant had been a lead Folies-Bergère showgirl in Las Vegas. There she met Andy Williams, the Kennedys' favorite crooner, and ended up marrying him and his singing career. After 14 years of marriage and three children, they were divorced in 1975, but by then Longet had moved in with Sabich. The skier, a former world pro champion, was a celebrated bon vivant who owned a $250,000 mountaintop house in Aspen. It was there, while...
...prosecution team, led by Levi's-clad Assistant District Attorney Ashley Anderson, 29, based much of its claim that Longet had behaved recklessly on the testimony of Aspen Detective David Garms. He related how Longet had told him after the shooting, "I raised the gun and playfully went 'Boom, boom,' and it went off." Anderson also tried to establish that Longet was reckless by nature. He called Williams to testify against his ex, but the singer defended her. He denied that he had told an Aspen neighbor the day after the shooting that Longet was a "crazy...