Word: riche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last September, Hussein flew to Teheran for secret talks with Iran's Mohammed Reza Shah Pahlevi. In December, Feisal paid his own visit to the Shah, where the two settled an old dispute over offshore oil rights in the Persian Gulf. The oil-rich gulf, in fact, is doubtless one key element in all the royal rambling, for with Britain considering withdrawal from its bases at Bahrein and Aden, an informal understanding today could become a formal pact tomorrow if leftists try to push the Nasserite cause in the region...
...they reworked the same material and rewrote the same leads, some reporters inevitably succumbed to the temptation to try the case prematurely in their columns. "Candy is positive that she had nothing to do with the demise of her rich old husband Jacques," wrote Bishop, who apparently disagreed with Jeannie. "She is equally positive that her sister's little six-foot boy Melvin had nothing to do with it. When one thinks of the 39 stab wounds sustained by Jacques, in addition to having a crystal flamingo broken over his head and the impact of a Coke bottle which...
Redeeming touches of grace are provided by Choreographer-Director Bob Fosse. His diamond-bright "Rich Man's Frug" is artfully precise mock-mimicry of the discotheque set. Fosse's dances always say something about the society that breeds them, and his jazz-oriented "Rhythm of Life" church number is a wry comment on religious hipsteria. The score is useful rather than enchanting, but one song, There's Gotta Be Something Better Than This, threatens to become the mood music of everyone who ever hated...
Among authors who have written about the rich, from Thackeray to Fitzgerald, envy in the form of satire has often leaked onto the page. But Louis Auchincloss has no reason to envy the rich. He is a member of the club, an urbane, 48-year-old member of his elected fictional milieu-old families, old money and old schools. As do his other books, this tenth novel presents a balanced, unjudgmental insider's view of the world he knows. The Embezzler, in fact, is unjudgmental almost to a fault...
...Though rich in startling, unsentimental detail, Eroica's disillusioned view of history never comes to wider focus upon a compelling character or a whole truth. Against the background of Poland in 1957, however, its very ambiguity is provocative-partly an elegy for individualism, partly an indictment of a people destined to trade old masters...