Word: plutocratic
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...either thespian or tonsorial, is Frank Thring as Pontius Pilate in Ben-Hur. What he did to Charlton Heston the fellow in the blue blazer is doing to Port Charles, the town in which General Hospital is situated. Mr. Blue Blazer turns out to be Mikkos Cassadine, an amuck plutocrat who means to create "a brave new world." Wants to set the planet an example of his terrible power by freezing Port Charles into submission. Confused; consult TV Guide, which verifies program is General Hospital, not Flash Gordon...
...excuses himself to the razor when he gets ready to shave." Runyon's patented style, stilted formality mixed with slang, shone to good effect in Baseball Hattie: "There she is, as large as life, and in fact twenty pounds larger." In The Pitcher and the Plutocrat, Wodehouse turned the game into a society romp; a newly impoverished young man gets the girl and her father's millions by starring for the New York Giants...
...romantic idealism so hermetic that self-knowledge is impossible. The currents of revolution and privilege scarcely ruffle her hair. Incapable of reflection, Charlotte moves, therefore she is. This unexamined life is filtered through the tough mind of Grace Strasser-Mendana, Colorado-born widow of a Boca Grande plutocrat...
...idyllic "island of stability and increasing prosperity in Latin America" you describe in your story on Mexico is indeed "no more." Perhaps it never was anything but a façade, a plutocrat's paradise based on a purely quantitative development for development's sake that postponed the demands for political, economic and social justice...
When Las Vegas is mentioned, one instantly conjures up the image of the corpulent, cigar-smoking plutocrat, laced with booze, squandering fortunes on the game tables. But to baseball player Pete Bernhard, Vegas means more than liquor, money and women. After all, Vegas is Peter's home town...