Word: golde
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...probably the excerpts from the film scripts themselves, the book will probably end up on many Fitzgerald-in-Hollywood-in-the-30s fans' already crowded shelves. Instead of debunking it, Dardis's book only complicates the California myth. Apparently, not only Fitzgerald went west looking for gold...
...near-biblical euphoria of Election Day still vibrates along the sagging boardwalk and ravaged back streets of Atlantic City. Since New Jersey's voters overwhelmingly approved a proposal to legalize casino gambling in that neglected aunt of Eastern resorts, money has poured into the city as if gold had been found beneath its soiled beaches. Downtown real estate values have soared 200% or more as speculators and promoters of every ilk and bilk rush to make the démodée dowager a belle again ?and so prepare to wring the belle of millions of restless Eastern betting chips expected...
Even the press box, that most sacred of all places, was peeling. Actually, it had recently been covered with a fresh coat of blue paint, but there were no signs warning anybody, and if you hadn't already noticed, blue paint and gold corduroys just don't make it. You feel like the pen in your left pocket has just leaked, and this time, it wasn't even your fault...
...spite of the minor drawbacks, In These Times clearly has the potential to become a reputable leftist weekly. Some of its reporters and columnists are tops, and its list of sponsors is potentially a gold mine, if they actually come through with copy...
...kind of costume jewelry that is fitted with special electronic circuits and powered by a hearing-aid battery. A small Phoenix company, H.A. Register, Inc., introduced the baubles last July, and has sold some 26,000 (retail price: $15). The blinking red lights are embedded in small, gold-colored trinkets, variously designed as traffic lights, question marks and Santa Claus, among other things. They can augment conversation. When a patron at the Phoenix Playboy Club asked a Bunny why the red light on her traffic-signal pendant, suspended above an intersection, was blinking, she sweetly responded: "Red means stop. Proceed...