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BEACHED.(The Hamptons)

The New Yorker

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Although the Hamptons are not a universal object of fantasy on the scale of Hollywood or Manhattan--there are no movies or musicals about young people in Kansas dreaming of making it in East Hampton someday--they have an allure that is at least as powerful, because it is based on exclusivity: the Hamptons are what the people who have made it in Hollywood and Manhattan fantasize about. Many New Yorkers look on the Hamptons--strictly speaking, a half-dozen or so disparate villages, which are often lumped together in the media and hence in the popular imagination--with a mixture of contempt and envy, the former inspired by the saturation-level coverage of the goings on of the ...

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