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...natural- gas leases for Amoco Production Corp., the 26-year-old Bush decided he was ready for bigger things. Neil and his wife Sharon were welcomed as a winsome couple in Denver's highly stratified social set. Sharon volunteered to help at Children's Hospital, Denver's most chic charity. She sold cookies through Cookie Express, a mini-business she started with chum Nancy Davis Zarif, daughter of Denver oil tycoon Marvin Davis, who dominated society in the city. Neil played squash at the Denver Club. But genteel poverty amid rich friends pinched: with Neil's $30,000 Amoco salary...
...special-delivery package bulged with sportswear bearing fancy logos like Giorgio, Gucci, Nike and Louis Vuitton. A chic boutique? No, the recipient was the Good Shepherd Center for Homeless Women in Los Angeles. And the merchandise was $1 million worth of counterfeit name-brand T shirts, sweat shirts and running suits seized by lawmen in a sting operation last December. Instead of destroying the phony duds, city attorney James K. Hahn launched an unusual salvage operation.With the O.K. of firms whose names were pirated, the city divided the 43,000 items among eight community-service organizations. "Come winter those things...
Most of the action centers on Tom Townsend (Edward Clements), a West Side resident who accidentally falls in with a small preppy group that, in some confusion over a taxicab, shanghais him to a chic after-party. Tom is eventually seduced by a lifestyle he once knew and later forswore. The film traces the rise and fall of this group of comrades-in-formals in a most bittersweet way. There are, of course, the token romantic entanglements. But they are far less interesting than the social comments the film makes...
Petropoulos draws a careful distinction between American and European styles within his department. Like the Romance Lang and Lit department, he says, "you do have the Euro chic crowd here...