Word: blue-blooded
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...fellow hostage Ingrid Betancourt, a French-Colombian who was kindapped while campaigning for the Colombian presidency and was rescued along with the Americans and 11 other hostages last summer. The authors describe the married Betancourt as carrying on an affair with a Colombian hostage, acting like a privileged blue-blood - "a frickin' princess" in Stansell's telling - bossing around the other prisoners and hoarding precious books, food and a transistor radio. They even claim that she told the guerrillas that the Americans were CIA agents. Asked to elaborate on Betancourt, Stansell told TIME: "That's an infection I lived with...
...whimsical movie “Penelope,” title character Penelope Wilhern, played by Christina Ricci, seems to have it all. As the daughter of blue-blood aristocrats, she has money, charm, and a horde of suitors flocking to her door. Oh yeah, she also has a pig nose. “Penelope” is a modern-day fairy tale in an image-obsessed world that actually teaches girls to love themselves the way they are. Penelope is heir not only to the family fortune, but to the family curse, as well, doomed to sport a pig nose...
...sense his passing should be lamented by anyone nostalgic for those days when ideas and the “life-of-the-mind” still mattered. Buckley was certainly an artifact of this dwindling era: He famously lost his temper on national television and blustered, in his droll blue-blood Connecticut brogue, “Now listen, you queer, stop calling me a crypto-Nazi or I’ll sock you in your goddamn face and you’ll stay plastered...
...Rarely do journalists fail to play up Abe's blue-blood heritage and the fears he stirs up among liberals. TIME's story was no exception. Will Abe act like a hawk or a dove toward Japan's neighbors? The media like to stereotype politicians, especially those with mystique. But let's remember U.S. President Richard Nixon. He began his career as a crusading anticommunist but turned out to be the statesman who reached out to the Soviet Union and Red China. My concern is not whether Abe will patch things up with Japan's neighbors but how he will...
...court settlement finds himself often presiding over the cases of Harvard students. The district attorney’s office would not comment on the rationale behind Sprague’s decision, but the judge’s undergraduate experience at the College might shed light on his views.A BLUE-BLOOD CRIMSONITETed McKinney ’60, who lived a floor above the judge during their freshman year, said Sprague was a focused student with conservative tendencies. Fellow classmate Foley Vaughn ’60 wrote in an e-mail that Sprague was “very Brahmin...