Word: pauperize
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...neurotically, pious, he went to Mass as often as five times a day. For the last 40 years of his life he dwelled in a small rented room on Chicago's North Side, from which he would timorously sally forth to collect street trash. After his pauper's death, hundreds of empty Pepto-Bismol bottles and nearly a thousand balls of string were found in his room. He had no friends and talked to himself incessantly in various voices. He did, however, have a secret life of disconcerting size and visionary intensity. Its traces were found after his death...
Dean Witter, once owned by Sears, has long been the little guy's friend on Wall Street. It has shunned such fancy fads as junk bonds and bankrolling corporate takeovers in favor of the mundane. Morgan Stanley has always considered such "retail" brokerage a pauper's enterprise. It has stuck with raising capital for the world's largest companies and advising them on what to do with same. Individual investors? Phew. Morgan bankers wouldn't soil their wing tips in that mire...
...Kinshasa Future: the Foreman and Ali of today. One became a preacher and found a rich comic voice that has finally made him an endearing figure in sports. The other is afflicted with Parkinson's syndrome, his grace palsied, his old raffish rhetoric muted. The King is a physical pauper now, and at his sight we age and ache. His mind, however, is not so impaired, nor is his taste for raillery. Ali recently saw the film and phoned Gast to express his appreciation. The champ also said he remembered Gast: "You're the skinny, ugly guy that was with...
...creation of Mickey Mouse in 1928 marked the entry of art into the mainstream of everyday life. The exhibition spans the history of the Walt Disney Company, from "Steamboat Willie" (the first animated film to feature Mickey Mouse and a synchronized soundtrack) to "The Prince and the Pauper," Disney's 1990 animation short. The exhibit includes preliminary drawings, movie posters, and frames of celluloid animation film ("cells"). The sequence of drawings for "The Prince and the Pauper" includes a story sketch, which captures the mood of the story; rough drawings of the extreme points of the character's movements; "clean...
...income from oil and gas leases greatly reduced by the petroleum glut of the early '80s. Lansky died in 1983. If there were secret millions, they do not seem to have changed the lives of his family. After a life limited by cerebral palsy, elder son Buddy died a pauper...