Word: riche
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...very deceptive movie. Shot in black and white (actually in a rich variety of grays painstakingly rendered by Cinematographer Gordon Willis), it announces at once that it intends to be different from the general run of movies. Still, the picture induces howls of laughter in the opening reels, raising expectations that we are again simply going to see the superb comic character whom Allen has been developing since the early '60s. After a while, however, the raucousness dies down. The movie never ceases to be funny, but it starts to be something more. In the end, by administering a series...
Country music, that vivid, livid mirror of America's loves and hates, reflects a growing target: the rich. Listen to Johnny Paycheck, folk philosopher with a gritty guitar...
...pushed his shy wife Katharine into the job of publisher. To nearly everyone's surprise, she rose to the challenge, hired the editors who hired the reporters who took on, eventually, the house that Nixon built. Similarly the Los Angeles Times achieved a monopoly in its morning market; already rich under Norman Chandler, it grabbed for respectability under Son Otis. Democrats seeking office in California soon had the unaccustomed thrill of reading about their efforts in the news columns of the Times...
...publishers also offers a useful corrective to many books about the press. Seeking profits, in Halberstam's story, is no crime; a news organization that goes broke can no longer do any harm or good. "It was a curious irony of capitalism," he writes, "that among the only outlets rich enough and powerful enough to stand up to an overblown, occasionally reckless, otherwise unchallenged central government were journalistic institutions that had very, very secure financial bases." Hence the rage that so many politicians have felt when major news outlets threaten the status...
Though one of the main Jainists principles advocates non-acquisition, Chitrabhanu says Jainists are no less materialistic than most people. The teacher himself lives in a sparsely furnished penthouse at a posh Manhattan address. "The Jain community is a very rich community in India, rather like the Jews here. They are governing all walks of life in business, in advocacy, in politics. In Boston, too, I have students who are doctors and lawyers. So they are luxuriant, but their life is governed by the central principles. What you need, you have, but the less you need, the more...