Word: rich
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Benjamin Sonnenberg, 77. public relations wizard whose clients once included Philip Morris, CBS and Samuel Goldwyn; of a heart attack; in New York City. A young immigrant who became head of his own public relations firm in the 1920s, the walrus-mustached Sonnenberg dressed like an Edwardian, cultivated the rich and powerful, and lived in a style most of his clients envied. In his 37-room, antique-filled mansion on Manhattan's Gramercy Park, he held lavish soirées at which he flourished as raconteur and keeper of secrets, wheeler-dealer and patron of intellectuals. Sonnenberg once proclaimed...
...brass bands. At that moment Days of Heaven effortlessly transcends its own story to prefigure the history of an era. As Malick's characters lost their innocence on a ravaged wheatfield in Texas, so would a nation on the bloody battlefields of the first World War. - Frank Rich...
...F.D.R. and Anna May Wong jokes. Among the unruly supporting players, Dabney Coleman is refreshingly laid back as the heroine's hired fella, but the gifted Jack Gilford is squandered as a crochety blind grandpa. Someone should put Apple Pie back in the oven. - Frank Rich...
...push for a larger tax cut than the $16.3 billion approved by the House and may try to reduce the maximum 35% capital gams tax rate in the bill to 21%. The President has warned that if the changes are too drastic, or too much in favor of the rich, he will react with the ultimate weapon at his command: a veto...
...wards and supplying some of them to homosexuals. In a Manaus São detention home, eight hapless girls vainly attempted collective suicide by swallowing large doses of poisonous detergents and tranquilizers. In Rio, a 15-year-old boy, arrested for a series of thefts, told police: "I hate rich people, especially the children." Abandoned at seven, he had spent the following years shuttling between orphanages and detention homes. Yet another youngster recently was brought before a Rio magistrate...