Word: glittering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Whatever the price, by whatever name, cocaine is becoming the all-American drug. No longer is it a sinful secret of the moneyed elite, nor merely an elusive glitter of decadence in raffish society circles, as it seemed in decades past. No longer is it primarily an exotic and ballyhooed indulgence of high-gloss entrepreneurs, Hollywood types and high rollers, as it was only three or four years ago-the most conspicuous of consumptions, to be sniffed from the most chic of coffee tables through crisp, rolled-up $100 bills. Today, in part precisely because it is such an emblem...
...thought it was stupid. All those hundreds of thousands of leisure suited fans he drew must have been stupid, too, if that's what they wanted to see. But they didn't see that Elvis either. Impossibly, like kabuki stagehands, no one saw the paunch and the glitter. Maybe it was mass hypnosis. Maybe it was wishful thinking. But what they saw was miles from what was going on onstage. What they saw was some twenty, twenty-five years ago. What they saw wasn't ridiculous...
...Glitter Dome, Wambaugh...
...Noble House, Clavell (2 last week) 2.Gorky Park, Smith (4) 3. God Emperor of Dune, Herbert (1) 4. Goodbye, Janette. Robbins (5) 5. Free Fall in Crimson, MacDonald (3) 6. The Covenant, Michener (6) 1. Masquerade, Williams (9) 8. The Cardinal Sins, Greeley 9. Tar Baby, Morrison 10. The Glitter Dome, Wambaugh
...Glitter Dome, the Hollywood detective division is more M*A*S*H unit than police station. Its inmates have one common ambition: survival-from perpetrators and pistols, alcoholism and insanity, suicide and divorce. These are choirboys at the end of the song. Their angst is echoed on the mean streets just below the topiary of Beverly Hills: heroin, child abuse, pornography, snuff films and bizarre murder. When Film Studio Boss Nigel St. Claire is found with two .38-cal. bullets in his face, Al Mackey and Marty Welborn, a couple of Wambaugh's best creations, are called...