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...their work week as Coke Day, sniffing the white stuff from their first order to their last, often joined by dishwashers, busboys and waitresses, who come by for an occasional hit. A more impatient group in Pasadena, Calif.-a cross section of professionals in their 20s and 30s-celebrates TGIW (Thank God It's Wednesday), gathering at the home of a local car dealer for a coke session at cocktail time...
...generated income, buyers in southern Florida frequently shell out cash for expensive yachts or condominiums. Seldom is a question asked or an eyelid batted in such cases. As Miami Herald Editor Jim Hampton observes, "What should a real estate dealer do when a man in his late 20s or 30s with no visible source of income plunks down $250,000 cash for a house or condo...
...superiority was not so evident when he was young. His father was a small fonctionnaire, stuck in the French bureaucratic anthill. His school record was poor, and he failed three times to be accepted by the main art school in Paris, the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. Until his early 30s, nothing he made was noted, and he simply contributed his anonymous efforts to the studios of other sculptors, patinating, chasing, designing decorative masks-the laborious hackwork of an age of commemorative sculpture. He was in his late 30s before he managed to get a major sculpture on public exhibit...
...Poetry is power," observed Osip Mandelstam, Russia's great 20th century poet who died some time in the late '30s in a Soviet concentration camp. "Poetry is respected only in this country -people are killed for it. There's no place where more people are killed...
Timerman has repeatedly compared the see-no-evil attitude of Argentina's Jews with that of Jewish leaders in Nazi Germany in the '30s, who begged Jews abroad to keep silent about Hitler's persecution in the hope that German Jewry might thereby be saved. In his book, Timerman declared that he had been humiliated not "by torture, by electric shock on my genitals" but "by the silent complicity of Jewish leaders...