Word: wealth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nervous, but not scared, or hiding anything. Conventioneers will be offered a three-hour tour ranging from preppy Southern Methodist University to single-family ghetto homes, from the J.F.K. assassination site to the astonishing wealth of Turtle Creek. They will see Highland Park, just a nine iron away from the Dallas Country Club, the area's most exclusive. In Highland Park Village, even the Safeway is disguised as a hacienda. Throughout the town, in the rich north and the poor south, the visitor will notice crape myrtle in full, riotous bloom-the only living thing that seems to enjoy...
...wealth of real...
...long as one is genuinely a reverse snob and can believe that being at the bottom of "the ladder" is just as good as being at the top. Of course, Mailer's characters cannot accept any such proposition for long: the inevitable resurgence of desire--for status, normalcy, wealth, or what-not-cancels the values of the day before...
...city has had no Dickens; it does not have one here. It has defied attempts to capture it entirely: writers have taken it on, got lost in its complexities, returned advance money. How can anything linear be made of sprawl, dirty air, glitz, wealth, power, celebrities, a Noah's ark of immigrants, real estate gone mad, earthquakes, brushfires, mud slides, avalanches, floods, a million or so illegal aliens, freeways, enslavement to the automobile, drive-in churches, Disneyland, outrageous poverty, oil, the Pacific Rim, living on the fault line, heart-stopping geographical beauty, to name but a few ingredients...
...shortly after Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr. became mayor of Minneapolis, he got a call from his father. Hubert Sr. was shocked: his son had been seen dining with bankers. The small-town druggist delivered a warning against the lures of wealth, power and compromise...