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...hundreds of potential customers, even at stiff entrance fees of $15-$20 a head. Here at last was an adolescent fad the older generation could co-opt and enjoy; by decade's end exclusive restaurants and private clubs had opened discos, and annual membership fees at some of the plusher, better-equipped ones started at several hundred dollars. Studio 54, and all it represented, was only the tip of a narcissistic iceberg that ranged the gamut from hot tubs to Plato's Retreat. Those who could no longer afford the Studio and were still a bit too tame for Plato...
Many of the elderly with more money prefer plusher living. An estimated 500,000 have bought or leased property in the "adult" or "retirement" communities that have mushroomed round the country, primarily in Florida and the Southwest, where the weather is warm and the cost of living relatively low. Most of these "villages," "cities" and "worlds" follow the lead of Arizona's Sun City (pop. 34,000) and exclude younger people; no one under 50 can buy or lease property there. Some residents like the segregation practiced in the gerontopolises, but the majority are more interested in the amenities...
Neither the fortuitous accident which brought him in touch with his Crimson reviewer, nor his recent entrance into the literary pantheon, seemed to discomfit him much. After remarking that the Lampoon headquarters where he had once held sway were much plusher than the Crimson's game rooms, he spoke freely of future plans, in a light-timbred voice which unexpectedly erupted into husky laughter...
Neither the fortuitous accident which brought him in touch with his Crimson reviewer, nor his recent entrance into the literary pantheon, seemed to discomfit him much. After remarking that the Lampoon headquarters where he had once held sway were much plusher than the Crimson's game rooms, he spoke freely of future plans, in a light-timbred voice which unexpectedly erupted into husky laughter...
...Nootin--Wahtertown. To be specific: Arlington High, Arlington Central Catholic, Cambridge High and Latin, Rindge Tech, Matignon High School, Our Lady Help of Christmas High School, Newton High, Newton South, Belmont High, St. Mary's, Medford High School. South Boston, an hour away by MBTA, keeps to itself; the plusher suburbs are too self-possessed...