Liquid Assets
April, 1990
When oscar wilde protested, "I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied by the best," he was expressing the driving sentiment of the Nineties—not the 1890s but the 1990s. For while we may all be forced to do with a bit less of some of the necessities of life in the decade ahead (air and new Rolling Stones albums, for example), we do expect that the luxuries should be of the highest quality. Of course, if an item has the added virtue of being quite rare, its mere possession becom...
