Word: crystal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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LAST SEPTEMBER the entire population of a puny but spunky south Texas town had the guts to do what most of us just fantasize about. After experiencing a 600-per-cent increase in its gas bill over the past five years, Crystal City up and decided it couldn't and wouldn't take it any more, and its 8000 residents defied the gas king of south and central Texas, LoVaca Gathering Company. They said no to exorbitant rates, and have borne the consequences. Crystal City has been without natural gas since September...
...Sometimes he's the most normal person I know," confides Zevon's wife Crystal, 28. "And sometimes he's totally crazy. He's always nice with me and the baby, but every now and then he'll just decide to do something-like fall down a flight of stairs. I usually laugh. He's pretty humorous." Even Crystal confesses to being a touch "terrified" now that Warren has invested in a .44 Magnum. Recently, Zevon was so enjoying brandishing the weapon as he ran around his house wearing a duck mask that friends...
...Everly Brothers (the "little Suzie" who gets mangled by the excitable boy is a wry nod at them), got' a song onto the sound track of Midnight Cowboy and made one album called Wanted Dead or Alive that attracted scant attention. Eventually he met up with Crystal, and took off to Spain, where he sang for his supper in a Costa Brava saloon run by a soldier of fortune named David Lindell (coauthor of Roland). Lindell held Zevon's wages in escrow, in case of either dire need or sudden good fortune. Jackson Browne, who had got friendly...
...RICH CHILDREN, on the other hand, provide a crystal-clear window into their parents' minds, and Coles is on familiar ground in presenting their lives. As a reviewer, I am perhaps prejudiced by my own first-hand knowledge of how the rich live. Growing up in Greenwich, Connecticut, the descriptions of homes as "dramatic and secluded; old, historic and architecturally interesting; large with good grounds; private and palatial..." conjure up scenes that I have come into contact with. And while I have not lived inside these homes of the very rich, I know how parents with money have worked...
...Drive, a men's store so exclusive (or merely overpriced) that, says he, "the only proper customer is the man who earns $100,000 a month." He and his partner, another Iranian, Daryoush Mahboubi-Fardi, adorned their store with a $400,000 brass and glass staircase, a $75,000 crystal chandelier and a gaggle of other niceties totaling $ 1 million...