Word: rich
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Every member of this City Council is a servant of the rich," said Robert Schwartz, a member of the Referendum Campaign, "and if the poor workers of the city want rent control they will have to roll over the City Council. We're going to roll over you guys. You have done nothing to stop the Universities. Harvard students will stop Harvard even if we have to tear it apart like Columbia and San Francisco State...
...Schwartz and Stoia leveled charges of inaction at the Council, they were backed by Councillor Alfred E. Vellucci. But the "servants of the rich" charge by Schwartz brought the pride of East Cambridge storming to his feet. "Do you know me so well that you can make a charge like that?" Vellucci roared. "I walked in picket lines long before you, and don't you dare tag Al Vellucci with being a servant of the rich, I don't know who your father is, but my father was a poor immigrant, and I have eight children to support. And where...
...Christ, a Mantegna St. Jerome, a commanding Velásquez portrait. There are also some diverting minor works, such as Quentin Metsys' Contract of Marriage, a droll example of genre by a Flemish contemporary of Erasmus, showing a young man dutifully snuggling up to an ugly but rich old wife...
...strength of the collection lies in its vast variety of impressionists and post-impressionists-a variety so rich that it provides offbeat works of artists whose characteristic style has become almost too familiar. Sāo Paulo has, for instance, several Renoir nudes in his well-known manner. But the eye-opener is the full-length Bather with Griffon, painted in 1870 when Renoir was still seeing through the eyes of his mentor Courbet. It depicts Renoir's first mistress, Lise Tréhot. No later Renoir nude was more lushly sensuous...
...survive, they must all deal with Mr. Rich (Ted Thurston). Old Rich has the classic ailments of age and wealth: he is impotent and bored. On New Year's Eve, Potemkin arranges for a love scene to be played between the Orphan and the Angel with the hope of restoring Rich to youthful virility, after which the old man is supposed to get the girl. Naturally, it does not turn out that...