Word: poshli
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...individual emancipation but not institutional change. The educational system, banks, the church have lagged behind." Actress Melina Mercouri, who is running for reelection on the PASOK ticket from the same Piraeus district in which she never worked on Sunday, points toward the harbor from her penthouse in Athens' posh Kolonaki district. "Can you imagine that almost within sight of us there are thousands of people living without running water, without proper sewage, with very little medical care?" she asks...
Moments of solitude and tranquility are possible despite the noise of the city: A frail urcnin stands outside a music shop situated on a posh street corner. She looks in the open-air store and gazes solemnly at the disco posters that cover the back wall, her eyes moving from one to another, surveying all their details. But the music playing in the shop is not disco; it is the sad and beautiful voice of a woman singing a classical Indian ballad. The young girl stares blankly for more than 15 minutes. She slowly lowers her head and walks back...
...Venezuela been able to solve its glaring social problems. The hills around Caracas' glittering downtown of high-rises and posh apartments remain dotted with ramshackle slums, ranchitos, where water is scarce and living conditions are crowded and unsanitary. Some 700,000 Venezuelans have no proper shelter; the government housing program designed to help them has been stalled for the past two years because of red tape. Over time, Venezuelans could well grow impatient at seeing money spent abroad when their own needs have not been met, provoking a political backlash. Says one Venezuelan economist: "People here are very nervous...
...confidently, she guides the taut mechanism of the movie's plot. She creates between herself and Ned a sexual attraction that erases the past and suggests terrible new options. And she knows, as a young woman whose Midwestern memories are as sordid as her Palm Beach present is posh, that she must sweat for what she wants. The film and the other characters sweat with her. Perspiration stains the satin sheets as Ned and Matty make love; and after, there is dew on the down of her back as she caresses and coaxes him. She is the mistress...
Larry Austgen, 31, of South Holland, Ill., is a contractor by trade, but a gambler by nature. Two years ago, Austgen built his first speculative house in suburban Chicago's posh Plum Valley: a luxury 2,400-sq.-ft. brick home guaranteed, he thought, to have the buyers lining up. Wrong. By the time it was built in August 1979, soaring mortgage rates and a souring real estate market had made a lemon of Austgen's plum. The house, appraised by realtors at $147,000, sat unsold for more than 18 months. Then Austgen had a sporting proposition...