Word: pauperized
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...change me by throwing water at me--or money. But then TRADING PLACES (Harvard Science Center) might tell a different story. Eddie Murphy and Dan Ackroyd reenact the old Prince and Pauper tale under the guise of a special experiment, the kind without flashing lights. Ackroyd, born with spoon in mouth and (as ever) no expression on face, plays the arrogant Rich Kid who loses it all so [the] thief sans trust fund ends up with his loot. The rich old Social Scientists who set both of them up want to settle the old Nature versus Nurture debate, where Nature...
...October 6. Yale finally got things going again with a big turnaround-way around, prince-and-the, pauper style-a 41-0 shutout of Morgan State, a squad that boasted more than three dozen freshmen...
...legalized their union, Liz and Dick were denounced by the pious. Everywhere they went the paparazzi trailed behind; following their soap-opera romance became almost a necessary diversion for a world wearied by wars and assassinations. The pair made millions and spent millions, traveling with an entourage that would pauper a Saudi prince, taking over entire floors of famous hotels. Like Henry VIII, a part he played with gusto in Anne of the Thousand Days, Burton lavished jewels on his consort: the 33-carat Krupp diamond, the 69-carat Cartier diamond and the lustrous Peregrina pearl that King Philip...
...HILDESHEIMER WARNED at the outset, this confident though unassuming biography leaves us with a still-unresolved composite of "an inconceivably great mind." All the cliched preconceptions--the angelic genius, the pauper-composer who hardly needed to think about the music he produced, the partier--are soon quashed. Hildesheimer, steeped for three decades in Mozart's music and history, shares with his reader the honest belief that his subject will remain "forever puzzling and unapproachable...
...visitor got on with business straightaway. She walked among 200 reporters (a fraction of those covering her) who had been invited aboard the comfortably staid Britannia to drink brandy and warm whisky. Mid-mingle, she had one American describe for her Mark Twain's The Prince and the Pauper, in which a servant is cursed for manhandling the disguised English monarch...