Word: silver
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...silver hearse carried his body from Dover, Del., to a crematorium in New Jersey. His ashes will eventually be scattered over the Atlantic. Thus were the Rev. Jim Jones' remains to be disposed of, one month after his body was found among 912 others at the grisly death scene he created in Guyana...
...sure, catalogue vendors lost no money on such stocking stuffers as a $45 sterling silver Perrier bottle opener with two silver bottle caps or a $140 one-inch-high sterling tea set. A $200 King Tut bust was bought by some 7,400 holders of American Express cards. Yves Saint Laurent's Opium perfume, at $100 an ounce, sold like, well, opium. Beverly Hills' David Orgell disposed of all 18 of his catalogue-advertised $750 sterling-silver telephones...
...furniture, marginally stylish when new, shows the wear of a decade and the impact of two lively kids. A Kiss album has been left abandoned on a sofa that Elton John wouldn't allow in the servants' quarters. A silver-blue Mercedes-Benz is parked in the concrete driveway, but automotive ostentation is endemic to Los Angeles, even to such a comparatively modest suburb as Woodland Hills...
...only still lives plain, but Al Coury. 43, talks as tough ("Don't call me back. Just do it") and speaks as straight ("If someone brought me Kiss today on a silver platter, I still wouldn't sign them") as he did 21 years ago, when he started hustling records around New England for Capitol. At RSO, Coury is given his head ("Robert's always on a boat somewhere. He says the L.A. smog affects his breathing"). Coury plunges into all areas of the biz. He engineers marketing strategy, designs ad campaigns, even pitches in on planning those mammoth Sunset...
Small, black and physically unimpressive, Ellelloū can roam his parched land in virtual anonymity, at least when he leaves his silver Mercedes. He is essentially and purposely a faceless character, an ineffectual ruler who cannot symbolize the absolute authority of the old king and does not have the pragmatic instincts of his successors. "Our President," says one, "rules by mystical dissociation of sensibility...