Word: recherch
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Being a snob of any kind is some times more difficult now. In a society of high discretionary capital and instantaneous communications, the snob and recherché effects tend to be copied and even mass-produced with stunning speed. For generations, much of America's old money walked around wearing beat-up crew-neck sweaters that had been around from St. Mark's or New Haven; the khakis were always a little too short, ending just at the ankles, and there were Top-Siders without socks. And so on. Then this came to be known as the Preppie...
...Ling's penchant for corporate spinoffs, parts of the old LTV have emerged to flourish as independent companies. The one with the most exotic projects is Dallas-based E-Systems Inc., a company with a meaningless name, an ultrasophisticated product line and operations that extend to such recherché places as the Sinai desert and the planet Mars...
...first beneficiary of organized crime is the organized criminal. The second is his well-paid opposition. The detectives, private guards, attack dogs and Kung Fu instructor all flourish in this lawless epoch; close behind are the writers of self-defense manuals. The most recherché of these literary crime fighters is David Krotz, author of How to Hide Almost Anything. Krotz, who is a carpenter as well as a writer, conjures up a harrowing world. Intruders perch upon window sills, second-story men prowl through closets, burglars tiptoe through kitchens and bedrooms. Their quest...
...magna cum laude), Morrow has written poetry and plays, acted, worked as a newspaper reporter in Washington and once spent nearly a year touring the U.S. in an old Volkswagen bus. According to McManus, "Morrow has the highest velocity vocabulary of any writer on TIME. But even his most recherché words are so exquisitely targeted that they often cannot be changed. Now we only allow him three zingers per issue...
...been the least productive of any in the U.N.'s 19 years. Not only did the Assembly meet 2½ months late, but once it had gotten together, it could not adopt an agenda, it could not begin debate on its budget, and even the filling of such recherché posts as the secretary-generalship of UNCTAD (United Nations Conference on Trade and Development) required bizarre behind-the-scenes maneuvering. Last week the Assembly's 114 delegates found themselves stealthily marking unofficial secret ballots in a tiny alcove off the vast Assembly Hall to decide whether Gabon...