Word: golds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There was only one big disappointment: no shoes. Otherwise, the display of opulence in the six-story Manhattan town house of former Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos and his wife Imelda was just what one would expect. Gold- plated lavatory fixtures. A kitchen on every floor. Three pianos and a harpsichord. Eighteen lace-covered pillows on the First Lady's richly canopied bed. Heroic ten-foot paintings of Marcos as a medal-bedecked leader and Imelda as a latter-day saint. A strobe-lighted and mirrored disco, outfitted with cushions bearing the mottoes of the Marcos millions. Example: "To be rich...
...From the gold-rush camps and Hollywood to the flower children and Silicon Valley, California has long been the place where the newest manifestations of the American dream first sprouted. In Orange County, the dream seems to be driven by the lure of both success and excess. With 42 miles of beckoning oceanfront, this California-style Riviera is a 38-sq.-mi. wedge of land stretching from the Pacific Ocean to the Santa Ana Mountains and harboring the thriving towns of Newport Beach (pop. 67,000), Costa Mesa (88,000) and Irvine (89,000). It includes a constellation of some...
Growth has jolted Orange's traditional complacency. Bill Hamilton, who went home to California to retire but instead opened a seafood restaurant in Orange, compares the mood to "gold-rush fever." Says Stockbroker Trevor Spruston: "The atmosphere challenges everyone's drive." It also encourages second starts, says Alan Rypinski. He made one fortune producing a protective coating for vinyl and rubber called Armor All, stumbled financially with an auto boutique and a fast-food spaghetti business, and is now trying to pile up another bundle selling a product that removes wrinkles from fabric. Says Rypinski: "It's pretty easy...
...strained at the beginning of the session and got steadily worse. In the end Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi accused Britain of "compromising its basic values for economic gain." An even angrier Kenneth Kaunda, the President of Zambia, described Thatcher as a "pathetic figure" who was "worshiping platinum and gold...
...trend, which has made many previously unreachable or unknown offshore wrecks accessible to enterprising amateurs. But scientists are becoming agitated. "This technology is out of control," Ballard told a congressional hearing last year. Says Helen Hooper, a consultant for the Society for Archaeology: "There's a mini-gold rush going on right now, and it's endangering some of the more important sites. We're afraid that if there isn't some slowing down of this treasure hunting, there won't be anything left...