Word: posh
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...self-assessment What are your: Dreams, Goals, Skills and Talents? Achievement + Knowledge = Success." Aspiring actress Verity Gorman, 13, seems to have learned the lesson. Asked to audition for the 26-part series (which will be screened in Australia and England next year), she won the role of Lockie's posh classmate Sasha, a poised figure not unlike herself (pictured). "This has given me a small taste of what it's really like," she says of filmmaking. Tastes like teen spirit...
...Dream Was Over Former Philippine First Lady Imelda Marcos remains optimistic about resolving the long-contested ill-gotten-wealth cases filed against her family [July 3]. TIME's March 10, 1986, cover story described the scene at the posh presidential residence after the People Power revolution forced President Ferdinand Marcos into exile...
...bottle were going for under two bucks. Within a week after the deadline, at least 15,000 small stores, including expensive wine boutiques, went out of business. Shelves of imported alcohol have been stripped bare, except for lonely bottles of German alcohol-free wine. The posh Bosco Café in Red Square, Moscow, famous for its cocktails and elaborate wine list, now typically restricts its aperitif offerings to unimaginative gin or scotch, while patrons wash down fish dishes with overpriced Chianti from Bosco's depleted stocks, as no white wine is to be had. Retailers smell a conspiracy. "These...
...three decades since former Chinese premier Deng Xiaoping proclaimed “to get rich is glorious,” and the Chinese people have taken him at his word. Luoyang, though a far cry from the sparkling metropolises of Shanghai and Hong Kong, is hardly austere. Ladies in posh dresses and heels browse marbled department stores. McDonald’s and Kentucky Fried Chicken are expensive eats here, serving meals that might cost up to three or four U.S. dollars. And the prices for luxury items rival those of American stores. But for all its commercialism, it?...
...that in a more meritocratic age, Eton became synonymous with "English aristocrat." Its well-worn image is as a finishing school for not-necessarily-deserving boys whose parents can afford $44,000 in fees each year (Harvard costs nearly the same) to ensure they develop the easy confidence, posh accent and useful contacts that will guarantee access to the top of British society. At least among many metropolitan commentators, that fed an anti?private school, anti-Eton mood for years. A lot of smart money during the Tory leadership contest in 2005 discounted 39-year-old David Cameron simply because...