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Yet no honest essay on this subject can ignore the cracks in the crystal. The vintage big lifestyle was built on a foundation of exclusion. For every tuxedoed star at the Copa, there was a back door marked "Colored" or "No Jews." The Rat Pack’s cool was revolutionary precisely because they fought those signs, but they were the exception, not the rule. The "big" life was largely a white, male, heterosexual privilege. Women were accessories—the "dame" in the tight dress, there to laugh at the jokes and be sent home. The three-martini lunch that powered Madison Avenue also fueled alcoholism, divorce, and quiet desperation hidden behind a veneer of polish. vintage bigtits