Word: palming
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...Palm Springs has become a rat race," contends Jeannine Levitt, a local hostess whose late husband became rich building rows of development houses a continent away in Long Island's Levit-town. "The party competition is crazy. We're becoming worse than Miami." The point of the new frenzy of socializing, complains Levitt, is "to see and be seen...
...Palm Springs was as a health spa in Agua Caliente Indians claimed the area's deep mineral springs could cure tuberculosis. Later it became a quiet refuge for Hollywood stars. Other affluent families followed the entertainers, relishing the beauty of the desert and the steep mountains that tower above the resort on three sides. Air conditioning took the sting out of the 120° summer heat; cool nights and tangy mornings enticed the active residents into swimming pools and onto tennis courts and golf courses. But now Palm Springs is becoming overdeveloped and even turning a bit tacky in spots. Meanwhile...
...Highway 111 has nearly doubled the valley's population, from 88,000 to 170,000, since 1970. In recent years the number of new houses, condominiums and hotels in the strip has grown as much as 60% a year. The value of building permits in the community of Palm Desert leaped 495% in 1985. Indian Wells, which had 800 residents when it was incorporated in 1967, now has 1,900 with an average annual income of $74,000, making it one of the nation's wealthiest communities. Some 8,000 residences are now abuilding in La Quinta...
...Palm Springs itself, not to be left out, is planning a water-slide entertainment park and building a six-story Pierre Cardin hotel called Maxims. Next to it is a block- long string of fashion shops featuring Saks and I. Magnin. But the action now centers in what Palm Springs old-timers disparage as "down valley," where newcomers find no reason to leave their walled compounds and new shopping malls to drive into the "old town." Their lives revolve around the booming clubs. They spend their days on the fairways and their evenings at cocktail bashes, black-tie charity balls...
...tradition permeates the work of North America's most celebrated Shakespeare troupe, Stratford Festival Canada, which is making its first U.S. tour in 13 years, with a repertory of Twelfth Night and King Lear. The shows have played to nearly sold-out houses in Los Angeles, Seattle, Chicago and Palm Beach, Fla.; are running in Fort Lauderdale for most of January; and will finish in Washington on Feb. 2. Founded in 1953 by Tyrone Guthrie, the Stratford company prides itself on echoing the style of Britain's Old Vic of the 1940s, which in turn derived from an earlier...