Word: lucked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There's a price to be paid for the luck and design it takes to win Quincy's most coveted room. You have to face the high expectations of your fellow housemates...
...face of such assaults, says psychiatrist Alvin Poussaint, vulnerable blacks can unconsciously accept the negative images attributed to their race, then scurry to distance themselves from those images by words or deeds. Denying that luck, family support and other factors, including affirmative action, may have helped them, TBS victims con themselves into believing they have made it solely because they are exceptionally gifted individuals who are innately superior to less fortunate members of their race. They often exhibit disdain for poor blacks, especially those who are on welfare or have given birth to a child out of wedlock. They believe...
...That means an application. And maybe an interview. And a lot of luck...
Brady is looking at his breakthrough year. He wrote two songs on Raitt's brand new Luck of the Draw, including the title track; and she returns the favor by singing lead and background on the title track from Brady's own Trick or Treat (Fontana/Mercury), which may well be the prize work in this very fine bunch. Brady's solo career as a songwriter began more than a decade ago; before that he had been known as a reinterpreter of traditional Irish music. After his fourth solo record, in 1988, followed the usual pattern -- critical accolades, cult status, stubbornly...
...need all five, by any means, but you need at least one. Charles Revson, who founded Revlon, had all but Resources (he grew up in a cold-water flat, knew nobody important and never went to college). His partner, Charles Lachman (the L in Revlon), had only Luck. He married into a small chemical company, enabling him to provide Revson a few thousand dollars of goods on credit to get started. In return, he got a 30% stake in Revlon and, in his words, a rake. For the next 50 years he just raked...