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As an old boulevardier, I must agree with many of the sentiments expressed in the Guide. Par exemple, New York itself: "It is beautiful and hideous, tender and violent, generous and greedy, fascinating and horrifying. New York is the image of the whole continent. Contradictory, profound, lyrical. . . it is the...
IN Atlantic City, the East Coast's first legalized gambling paradise takes form on screen as a sore on the continent's skin, a pustule that bursts every decade or two. The film jumps back and forth among images of demolition and urban renewal: a billboard on a lone, dilapidated...
He was a reclusive man who for years paid himself the spartan salary of $10,000. Yet Juan Terry Trippe, the patriarch of Pan American World Airways, was also quite a gambler. He pushed Pan Am into the jet age and in 1966, foreseeing a market for jumbo planes capable...
Of course, it took a while for the realization to sink in. Up until the Second World War, L.A. managed to hide itself behind its silver screens, and the news from the Coast was usually good. People were dancing out there. And singing. And repenting. During the war, though, a...
His letters, which he never intended for publication, reveal just how rich that life was. They also indicate why his convictions about hunting, fishing, drinking, warring, fornicating, storymaking and dying were certain to become public property. Hemingway's code of conquest and survival was on the continent before the...