Word: pauperizing
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...hand-me-down celebrity. But Harold Washington was hardly a figure of renown, despite 16 years in the state legislature, one full term as a U.S. Representative from Illinois' First District, and re-election to Congress last fall. His $1.1 million war chest left him a comparative pauper in a municipal election touted as the most expensive in American history. (Byrne's campaign cache was about $10 million; Daley's fund was roughly $2 million...
...search for gold that brought the first voyages of discovery to the Caribbean. The intrepid explorers found little gold, but they fell upon a pauper's paradise of emerald seas, swaying palms and scented hillsides. Marveled Nicolo Syllacio, a writer who traveled with Christopher Columbus on his 1493 expedition to the islands of the New World: "The beauty of its mountains and the amenity of its verdure must be seen to be believed." The natural allure remains, but the modern quest...
...price, reportedly about $250,000, to the parent Minneapolis Star and Tribune Co., and assume the magazine's subscription liability of some $3 million. But it will share the magazine's operating costs with the Atlantic Richfield Foundation, whose donor, ARCO, four years ago bailed out another pauper of the press, Britain's Sunday Observer...
...perhaps one tie. They'll bus up to Dartmouth Wednesday night to face the Big Green--14-5-1 overall and awesome at home--come back to Bright for part II of The Game next Saturday, and then return North the following weekend to face the prince and the pauper: Clarkson (11-7; the conference's highest scoring team) and St. Lawrence (3-15--the cellar...
...dangerously mad, a secret aficionado of cat juggling whose gift is for making audiences laugh uneasily. That is to say that he is, approximately, a white Richard Pryor, and how about casting the two of them to gether in a remake of The Prince and the Pauper? -John Skow