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...before relocating to Texas, the Darlings were a "landed family" in South Carolina and Alabama. The name "Sterling Price Adams Darling Jr." is itself an heirloom, not a pseudo-WASP creation of his parents. It's no wonder that the modern day Darling looks and acts like a relic from the antebellum South. "I don't even own a pair of jeans," he blithely asserts. He tempers that statement with the admission that he did own one pair sometime in high school "as like a club uniform or something." Avoiding casual wear "is not a comfort issue," he maintains...
...prospect of a federal boycott, even if informal, would ratchet up pressure on the state--already being shunned by the American Bar Association, the N.A.A.C.P. and other groups--to pull down the slave-era relic...
...prospect of a federal boycott, even if informal, would ratchet up pressure on the state - already being shunned by the American Bar Association, the NAACP and other groups - to pull down the slave-era relic...
Over in Bush country, meanwhile, there was predictable mutinous muttering as supporters wondered which genius had thought it was a good idea to drop $2 million in McCain's home state. That money was a little relic of the race they had once thought they'd be running. Four years ago, Steve Forbes won in Arizona--and back when the Bushies were making their spending plans, he was the guy they thought would still be standing by Arizona, not John McCain. In fact, the entire Bush strategy--early money, early inevitability, lots of leftover cash for spring--all that...
...just before the great art-market crash of 1989, Brits with pinstripe suits and faces like silver teapots have been flogging the benefits of art ownership to the rich on both shores of the Atlantic: art as investment, art as social elevation, art as confirmation of status, art as relic-hunting--the whole rigmarole that has actually done more to debase the real messages and values of art than anything else in our culture...