Word: moneybags
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...citizenry, puffing like a beached whale as he sports in the percales with a period piece named Augusta Cordell, estrous wife of a society figure. Renek never whitewashes the Boss, but he adds another dimension to the celebrated Thomas Nast drawings of Tweed as a vulture, a bloated moneybag and Falstaff. En route the author vigorously and accurately portrays his real hero: the city, with its teeming and angry slums, frantic mix of ethnic groups, riots, underworld schemers and high-level scandals, demonstrating that in New York, the more things change, the more they are the shame...
Main Street itself was back to being -well, Main Street. On the first post-Olympic day, graying John Jesmer, emerged with a moneybag from the liquor store he manages. What now? "Well, I guess I'll look forward to summer," he said. He headed on toward the Bank of Lake Placid after noting, "At least the traffic is back on Main Street...