Word: golden
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...When we (immigrants) came over we didn't expect to be taken care of, fed from the golden calf," Jack says, and Bernie notes that Teddy Kennedy has inverted his brother's 'Ask not...' philosophy. Jack figures while he's in town he might get in touch with Jesse Jackson, whom he admires for what he sees as his anti--handout mentality. Both delegates feel blacks should be included in the party so as to broaden its base, but, as the events of the week soon prove, these views go unheeded...
Small wonder. Inmates apparently learned how to crack the computer code governing Internal Revenue Service audits. Since prisoners must file tax returns on any outside income, some saw a golden opportunity. Knowing how to hoodwink the computer, they loaded their returns with all kinds of bogus claims for refunds, with little fear of being audited. One convict was finally caught. Last week he went on trial for receiving $20,000 in illegal refunds. Others are sure to follow him to the dock, since the total rip-off could range anywhere from $150,000 to $6 million. Back to making license...
...Bernhard was surviving all the criticism quite well. Indeed, he plans to attend Prince's Day ceremonies, celebrating the official opening of the Dutch parliamentary year, as usual on Sept. 21. The only difference: as he passes through the streets with Queen Juliana in her famous horse-drawn golden carriage, the prince will be dressed in a morning coat rather than in the navy uniform that he has been forced to put into mothballs. Snapped Bernhard to a friend who inquired too curiously about his Prince's Day plans: "You would not have thought that I would...
...folklore, a show, theater, dreams." Another complaint-as if buyers of haute couture rode the subway -was that Yves' cloaks and skirts are "too wide to pass through the Metro turnstiles." The unkindest cut came from a jury voting during the week of the showing for the new Golden Thimble award-haute couture's would-be Oscar: it gave the honor to the classic Mme. Gres (runner-up: Emanuel Ungaro), without even mentioning Saint Laurent...
...bringing his characters onstage alone to soliloquize about what has occurred and what bad results may be expected. Occasional modernisms ("A cheap shot," "Say the magic word," "I had gotten through to him") clink absurdly, and it is hard, when they do, to imagine the pharaoh's golden barge ghosting through chill nights on the Nile. Yet a patient reader is rewarded by some provocative notions about Akhenaten and his cousin-wife Nefertiti. the royal beauty whose sculpted head is, after the Sphinx, the best-known work of Egyptian...