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Today the resort that Post named Tres Vidas en la Playa (translation: "three lives on the beach") is slowly reverting to the thicket it once was. On once velvety golf links, cattle nibble at the patches of imported English grass that have survived months of neglect. Rows of expensive golf carts sit rusting in the salt spray from the nearby Pacific. The Olympic and villa pools, long stagnant, are covered with algae-green slime. Outside the compound's wrought-iron gates, striking waiters, maids and maintenance men-who have been picketing since July under a red and black strike...
What happened? Quite simply, Tres Vidas was so exclusive that almost no one showed up. Post's original notion, an opulent, members-only resort, captured the imagination of the international set. The rich, the royal and the celebrated attended the extravagant grand opening in 1969. "No country club in the world is so deliberately elite, so tastefully plush," bubbled Town & Country magazine in its February 1971 issue. But the initial fee of $8,000 and annual dues of $360 dampened the ardor of many prospective applicants; only 700 signed up. Nonetheless, Post would not abandon his ideal of exclusivity...
...pornography is not confined to the movies. In the Place Pigalle and along the Rue St. Denis, there are now dozens of dirty book stores, sex shops and théátres érotiques. A full leather-and-whip set sells for $125, and there are inflatable plastic dolls with all the proper-or improper-accouter-ments that...
Still-Life Sea. The first thing to note about Gris is the acuteness of his limitations. There are some artists who can do virtually anything, Picasso being their modern archetype. There are others who seem able to master only one thing; and of these petits-maîtres, Gris is the exemplar...
...knitting and, as I passed, called out in the guttural Spanish that many of the assimilated Aymara speak, "Harina barata, muy barata"--Flour, very cheap. I looked at her and smiled. Sensing a potential customer with mucho dinero, she put down her knitting and tried to entrap me: "Solamente tres pesos por kilo. No puede encontrar mejor"--Only three pesos, you can't find better. I mumbled in my broken Spanish that I was only looking, and turned away before I would see her disappointed look...