Sublime

decentralized sameness,”

He was fat. He wore jogging suits. He wore a medallion and gold chains. And the unforgivable of unforgivables, he had processed hair. The white media, perhaps not consciously, said, “We’re going to promote this guy because we can point up the ridiculousness and paucity of black leadership.” Al understood precisely what they were doing, precisely.

truculent

The eighties, of course, were the “greed is good” decade, as Gordon Gekko proclaimed in Oliver Stone’s Wall Street, and nobody captured the zeitgeist better than Trump and Maxwell. In addition to inflating their net worth, both projected outsize personalities as they stood astride the world stage, frequently appearing together in the business pages