Word: palming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...matter that the Floridian demi-Eden never got semibuilt. Today, nearly 60 years after the Florida land bubble burst, Boca Raton and its environs really are almost beyond realness. The international rich have rediscovered the Gold Coast's Palm Beach County. Though it includes the town of Palm Beach, this incubator for the newly wealthy is snob years distant from that small, code-ridden oasis of blue blood and encrusted money. The Gold Coast nouveaux, for the most part lustier, sportier and much younger than the ancien régime of Worth Avenue, converge from all over the world...
...overcasualized; there's almost an absence of tone." Says Helen Boehm, president of the porcelain company that bears her name: "I've been all over the world, and this place has glamour, color and manicure." Boehm (rhymes with dream) saw her very own polo players, the Boehm-Palm Beach Team, win the $100,000 world cup title in April for the second straight year...
There is little night life in Palm Beach County, and no evidence of a drug culture. "They're not into debauchery," says one observer. "They're not here to lie in the sun and get high." On the contrary, they are irrepressibly energetic outdoor people who play tennis at 10, golf at 2 and racquetball at 5. Their favorite sport is polo. Center of the action is the four-year-old Palm Beach Polo and Country Club. The P.B.P.C.C. has eleven polo fields (each ten times the size of a football field) surrounded by condominiums, villas and single...
...area calls itself the Polo Capital of the Free World (though not much polo gets played in the unfree world). Palm Beach County also boasts almost 200 golf courses, and styles itself, naturally, the Golf Capital of the Free World. But it is, above all, the glamour and drama of polo that give social focus to many Gold Coast lives. The 3 p.m. Sunday match at the P.B.P.C.C., preceded by a champagne brunch, is an Event. "A day without polo," sighs one veteran, paraphrasing Brillat-Savarin, "is like a day without...
...once pleasant town on the Mediterranean coast. In an exceedingly well-planned and carefully executed operation by the Israeli armed forces, the holdouts were removed without any deaths or serious injuries. Bulldozers continued to dismantle most of the last signs of the Israeli occupation-the buildings, streets, even the palm trees and vegetable gardens that the Israelis had planted in the desert. Two days later, on Sunday, April 25, the white and blue flag bearing the Star of David was lowered at Sharm el Sheikh on the southern tip of the Sinai, bringing the Israeli occupation...