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...1980s, the economy was booming and people were working hard to pay for fancy cars, mobile phones and Versace clothes. Temptations also breached the temple gates. Some Buddhist leaders were now being chauffeured in Mercedes-Benz, wearing silk robes and soliciting fortunes in donations to build ever gaudier houses of worship. "The monkhood used to be a paradigm for society," says Sulak. "Now the monkhood mirrors society, with all its problems...
...bestride the Strip and hubris is just Greek for chutzpah, Stupak is a figure of such bejeweled swagger that confessing a nightmare of disaster-movie proportions can seem like a boast. The dream speaks to the compulsive gambler's fear of winning what he most desires, while planning even gaudier schemes. "Tell your editors that I'll donate $1 million to their favorite charity," he barks at a Time reporter, "if they put my picture on the corner of the cover. Two million for the full cover. And that's negotiable...
...culture gets the kind of passive aggression that it needs. In the gaudier U.S., passive aggression is the ideal style of a television culture, of an overstimulated but vicarious race: postindustrial sofa-spuds whose contradictory cultural life swoops between hypothetical freedom and commercial manipulation. TV is the Great Satan of passive aggression: sedentary overhype...
...nostalgic standards of George Gershwin, the ballet is even gaudier than "Waterbaby Bagatelles," and just as superfluous...
Analyst Isaac Lagnado of Tactical Retail Solutions, applying the common measuring device for retail success, says Disney's stores sell about $600 worth of product per sq. ft. per year -- 50% above the average take for a , prosperous mall store. Warner's figure is an even gaudier $750. The number may be skewed because the company's showcase stores at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas and on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan do business considerably above the Warner norm, but no one is complaining. Last Christmas, says Peter Starrett, president of Warner Bros. Worldwide Retail, "the Fifth Avenue store did twice...