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...that the Olympic flame has been extinguished for another four years, and the glitter of the gold sufficiently dimmed, it might be appropriate to step back and try to make some sense out of the last two weeks' double camels and missed slalom gates...
...Hope, they are hyping him as a possible successor to another all-American boy, Johnny Carson. Nothing doing, says Chevy. "I have no desire to spend the rest of my life interviewing actors. That's what I'm trying to expose in my writing-all that glitter and pretension...
...that the fantasy turns out to be a dream of Ebenezer Scrooge: volumes shaped like rabbits, turtles-everything but books; "relevant" accounts of crime and strife; the latest data on the making of babies-but little about the meaning of love. Still, along the shelves a few items always glitter-works that will be read and reread long after the backs and covers are coated with crayon, spilled milk, tears and time...
...looking for sympathy, however, and he boils at suggestions that he should retire. "It's tiresome as hell to lose, but I still enjoy the game." He has retreated from the glitter of Manhattan's night life and rents a house in a quiet neighborhood of Garden City, a Long Island suburb. "I've only been to New York City once in the past eight weeks -the traffic's too damn bad," says Namath. But not as rough as the Sunday traffic on the field...
...Glitter v. Quiet. Though Post poured some $30 million of his personal fortune into Tres Vidas and borrowed millions more, the resort continued to sink deeper into the red. In 1971 Braniff International Corp. took over managerial control from the man who was once its chairman and began doing away with his members-only notion. "Tres Vidas," announced Braniff, "is a private-membership country club. Guests are currently being accepted on a get-acquainted basis ..." With visions of the hoi polloi overrunning their dream resort, remaining members began to shy away, hastening the downfall of Tres Vidas. By 1974 Braniff...