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Goldman is particularly acute as he recounts the final decade in Graceland, with its turn-of-the-century whorehouse décor of red plush and smoked mirrors. Elvis subsisted on a diet of charred bacon, mashed potatoes and very sophisticated opiates and uppers. His affairs in shambles, he fired most of his faithful retinue in a paranoid frenzy of firearms and pills. An abject drug addict, he flew to Washington for a spur-of-the-moment meeting with Richard Nixon in connection with his role as a spokesman for the President's antidrug campaign. Said Nixon: "You dress...
...dinner party given by the Association of American Publishers on the occasion of the last Moscow International Book Fair had been a literary highlight. It was 1979, and present at the plush Aragvi Restaurant in the Soviet capital was a pleiad of Russian writers and intellectuals, including Andrei Sakharov, the famed nuclear physicist, Dissident Author Anatoli Marchenko, Novelists Vasili Aksyonov and Vladimir Voinovich, and Critics Lev Kopelev and Raisa Orlova. But when the U.S. publishers got ready to give another such gala at the Moscow book fair this month, they knew the party would have to be smaller...
...main drawback to Uniqey is its plush price tag: about $200,000 for a 500-room hotel. But hotel executives predict that the traditional key may become as rare as bellboys with round red caps...
...couple of years ago, new homes for sale in California were snatched up almost as soon as they became available. In Santa Monica today, the average house stands unsold for up to 90 days. Ronald Reagan's plush three-bedroom Pacific Palisades house went on the market in January at $1.9 million. Finally, eight months later, an Orange County developer is interested in buying at that price, but he requests that Reagan provide some of the financing through an owner-supplied mortgage. No agreement has yet been reached...
...while, you can barely see for the myth. It was so quickly generated. So quickly canonized. When you ask people why they came they are reluctant to talk. It takes a while before it sinks in. They want to be left alone. Here, in the terrible neon on the plush vinyl-smelling carpet, surrounded by sensory input--they want to be left alone. They just want to remember...