Word: franked
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Frank Rich, for example, graduated from Harvard four years ago, and his friends say he is a success. They know, because when they call his New York townhouse a tape recorder tells them, "No one is home right now." Frank Rich's friends envy him that--even his Harvard Law School, Rhodes scholar friend--and they envy everything else about...
...friends tell it, Frank is making $25,000 a year as the New York Post's first-string film critic. Each morning he eats a light breakfast of warmed-over quiche and Nova Scotia salmon on his wrought-iron balcony overlooking Central Park, and then takes a cab six blocks to a screening session, where he rubs elbows with New York's brightest and best. He hurries home late in the afternoon and makes love to his beautiful, glamorous girlfriend. She asks him to marry her, and he refuses. Eventually he gets down to work--he climbs...
...wait a minute now, says Frank Rich. That's just not the way it is. "First of all, I'm engaged to be married in April," he says. The townhouse is almost a mile away from Central Park, way over on the East Side, and Rich has only a small, fourth-floor apartment, so he is always walking up and down stairs. He does work at home, but he does not own a bathrobe and he always types fully dressed...
...Frank Rich's material success may be no substitute for the intangibles, like pride in his work, but, the way his friends see it, Rich has come a long way since the days when he was trudging around with them in the Cambridge slush, agonizing over term papers and eating Barbecue Beef in the Lowell House dining room. What really gets them, though--what really sets their teeth gnashing--is that those days were so recent. That's just the way it happens, for some people. Before he could hang up his mortarboard, Rich was writing an article about Daniel...
...FRANK RICH...