Word: palmed
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That's what Palm Springs [the setting of Generation X] is all about. I'd been there once before. It just struck me as being a frightening and genuinely possible version of what the future could end up being: a gerontocracy, with no middle class, broken weather and forced leisure time. If you wanted to see what the future could be like you don't go to Epcot, you go to Palm Springs. Florida is scary...
Coupland's protagonists are three refugees from our media-dominated (and therefore boomer-defined) society. They live on the edge of the desert near Palm Springs, where "the rich people pay the poor people to cut the thorns from their cactuses." Andy Palmer, Dagmar Belling-hausen and Claire Baxter are all members of Generation X--the generation without cause and without direction...
...flood of newcomers has also brought new values and enthusiasms to the high prairie, sometimes outraging longtime residents in the process. Take elk hunting, for example, which is about as popular in Montana as golf is in Palm Springs, Calif. Turner infuriated hunters by barring them from his property. Old-timers retaliated by taking out newspaper ads warning Turner to stay off their land. Then Turner announced he would raise buffalo, not cattle, on his spread. "The buffalo were here first," he insisted. Local cattle ranchers are worried that the strange herds might spread disease. They are even more concerned...
...their hits or their runs but for their headline-grabbing errors. Presidential favorite son Neil Bush, political puppet master Charles Keating and junk-bond giant Michael Milken are among the reluctant celebrities honored in the latest offering from California's Eclipse Enterprises, whose previous politically risque parodies also feature palm-size portraits of front-page phenoms -- such as Neil Bush's dad in Iran-Contra Scandal Trading Cards...
State Attorney David Bludworth said authorities would be unable to use the information unless police reports were filed, Palm Beach police detective Christine Rigolo said under questioning by Mark Seiden, an attorney for Smith...