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DISCOS. Even delegates from Slippery Rock have heard that the Hippopotamus (405 E. 62nd St.) is resoundingly déclassé: too expensive ($12 minimum, $4 a drink), too loud, too ... well, last year. The new place to gawk and be groped is Regine's, in the Delmonico Hotel (Park Ave. and 59th St.), which is just as loud, pricy and up-to-the-second in chic. A cover charge of $10 (plus from $3 to $6 a drink) buys you the privilege of rubbernecking as the celebs make grand entrances on the long center staircase, boogying...
...underside is marked MADE IN JAPAN. The scholar becomes a prisoner of his obsession, forced to preserve the dream by repeating it every night. But reality is inexorable. Restaurants and boutiques spring up around collection and collector: the Florence Nightingale Tearoom, the Oscar Wilde Way Out. Spectators come to gawk at the thinker, not the thought; finally even the erotic kinks are removed by relentless commercial vulgarity...
There were scattered protests; residents adjoining the site began to complain in the early '70s about architect I.M. Pei's colossal architectural mock-ups and the potential pollution spawned by tourists flocking to Cambridge to gawk at the museum's coconuts, busts and other memorabilia...
...pages at length twice, once as the begetters of the central city and its department stores, again as the linchpins to the new suburbia. The department stores, too, emerge as a "democratic experience," the first places in the world where the poor as well as the rich could gawk at a vast array of bright new wares. Only occasionally does Boorstin ride a hobbyhorse too far. Obviously infatuated with the cowboy and all his ways, he devotes an entire section to an exhaustive -and nearly exhausting-treatise on the technology of cattle branding...
Magruder got the fame he sought -though hardly the kind he expected or perhaps deserved. His ranch-style house in Sumner, Md., is staked out by television crews and reporters; passers-by stop to gawk. The once ebullient family is not often on view. There are no more supper parties, bicycling trips, tennis matches. Rarely does anyone answer the doorbell or the telephone. An American political career has ended...