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...does not exaggerate. That skyscraper, one of the most prestigious in town, has a full tank of old money and gray suits, which is to say, oil has been very, very good to Dallas. The place crawls with bankers and lawyers and investment drones, and the ones with the biggest spurs can take the elevator up to the 39th floor and sip Jack Daniels at the Petroleum Club...
...Fish tanks can be mesmerizing, but who wants to scrape algae or scoop out floaters? NEC's Fish Club ($17,000) replaces all that mess with lifelike images of tropical swimmers displayed on a 32-in. screen behind a real, bubbling tank. Laser discs provide a choice of fish...
Meanwhile, live wrestling events are sold out night after night; pay-per-view revenues and sales of merchandise (toys, video games, hats, tank tops, temporary tattoos, backpacks, beach towels, hot sauces, Halloween costumes) are well over a billion dollars; and celebrities are beginning to make cameo appearances. In July, for example, Karl Malone and Dennis Rodman, lately of the NBA finals, will do battle as members of opposing tag teams in a WCW match. There is even a plan for a chain of WCW theme restaurants, the first of which will open this September in Las Vegas...
...also got a whole new crew of pen pals. "I'll ask one of them a question, and two weeks later I'll get a 10-page handwritten letter about it. They've been thinking about nothing else," he says. "It's like having your own personal think tank...
Pressed by critics and lobbies, television has begun to include more realistic story lines about sex and its possible consequences. TV writers and producers are turning to groups like the Kaiser Family Foundation, an independent health-policy think tank, for help in adding more depth and accuracy to stories involving sex. Kaiser has consulted on daytime soaps General Hospital and One Life to Live as well as the prime-time drama ER on subjects ranging from teen pregnancy to coming to terms with a gay high school athlete. Says Matt James, a Kaiser senior vice president: "We're trying...