Word: poshli
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...parted from Daily News Columnist Pete Hamill, 41, the man in her life for the past five years. While at home she stays trim with a regimen of exercise and yoga and a low-sugar diet. On the road her style is more inner-city Holiday Inn than posh hotel. "They're like motels without cars-you can go down the hall and get a bucket of ice," she figures. "It's also fun to run into all those salesmen I used to know when I first got into the business...
...make the winning bid of $500 for a Persian rug. "I wasn't planning on buying a rug, but this one came up at a fantastic price." A walletful of credit cards also makes many a consumer feel like a big shot who can spend freely at posh restaurants. Says Roger Martin, public relations manager of Windows on the World atop the World Trade Center in Manhattan: "If a person with a card sees a $35 bottle of wine on the list, after one drink he'll decide to buy it. Shoot the works, baby...
...choked with invading ice. Studying the strange landscape, Mountaineer Lanier Chambers declared: "It is so cold, my imagination is frozen." The Georgia Power Co. instituted 30-to 60-minute blackouts throughout the state. In Atlanta, which dipped to 1°, patrons wore their overcoats while dining at the posh Peachtree Plaza Hotel...
...less than $35,000," he notes sadly. For the opening night of Silver Streak, a comedy involving a runaway train, Zarem wanted a black-tie dinner in the middle of Grand Central Station. When Producer Frank Yablans balked, the party was held, more conventionally, at the posh Tavern-on-the-Green-another of Zarem's clients...
...heroines are me," says Rosemary Rogers. With her big dark eyes, full red lips, mass of raven hair and Las Vegas body, she looks the part - and she has lived some of it. The oldest child of a wealthy educator who owned three posh private schools in Ceylon, Rosemary Jansz was raised in colonial splendor: dozens of servants - never did a lick of work - summers at European spas - impossible to go anywhere without a chaperone. A dreamy child, she wrote her first novel at eight, and all through her teens scribbled madly romantic epics in imitation of her favorite writers...