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...dual air bags, antilock brakes and automatic mirror controls will be standard, while options include leather interiors, dashboard CD players and special antitheft devices. Prices in this group start at about $12,000 to $16,000, and can reach around $21,000 depending upon one's appetite for automotive swank...
...admitted through the velvet rope at Studio 54 would be Liza and Halston and Bianca, and so on down to -- why not? -- Roy Cohn, the aide-de-camp of Senator Joe McCarthy and arguably Satan's first lieutenant. The meaning of hip was reconfigured to embrace the greed and swank and snobbery it used to reject. It would be summed up later in a song by Billy Joel, who may or may not be hip but was hip to this: "All you need are looks and a whole lotta money...
...Saturday-night show in a Presbyterian church in Kansas City, Missouri, which began and ended with a prayer by the pastor, the fiftyish audience in rhinestones and T shirts responded wildly when Cash gave his trademark greeting, "Hello, I'm Johnny Cash." After the performance, Cash returned to his swank hotel, where a guest in a tuxedo called out, "Hey, Mr. Cash, welcome to Kansas City!" Then there was Dave Sheridan, a college student who attended a Cash concert in Columbia, Missouri, last week: "I'm hooked. Good music is good music," he said. "This guy's been around...
Many wealthy and famous not-exactly-wordsmiths are serving as contributing editors at swank publications. You may not see these celebrity editors' bylines too often, but you can trust that they are not collecting paychecks idly...
...once smarmy image of infomercials, moreover, is starting to improve. Three years ago, in an effort to avoid government regulation, the makers of infomercials issued guidelines that asked manufacturers to substantiate the claims of their products. Stricter rules and an influx of such yuppie-swank companies as Volvo and Braun to the $750 million infomercial business have resulted in the marketing of fewer gadgets ending in the suffix o-matic. In addition, Barry Diller's purchase of QVC has given the entire home-shopping industry an element of cachet. Diller was introduced to QVC by his friend Diane Von Furstenberg...