Word: riche
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lucienne, the oldest sister, sleeps with Serge's best friend because life with her rich, Anglo husband bores her to insanity. His two middle sisters lead grubby lives with their struggling lower middle class French Canadian husbands. Denise sublimates her frustration into gluttony and Monique pops pills and curses her travelling salesman husband for coming home only long enough to impregnate her. Serge's youngest sister, Nicole, sleeps with him. Meanwhile the old man and the aunts tear at each other as they sink pathetically into their graves. Everyone knows what Serge and Nicole are doing, but no one says...
Rockford is a lot cooler than his late night competition. Johnny Carsoin isn't really cool and half the time he has some hopeless boring cripple like Rich Little filling in for him. Baretta is sexy but not very cool, although his bird is cool. Barnaby Jones was cool when he worked for President McKinley. Mannix's theme song is cool, but he gets slugged in the medulla too often to be cool. Starsky and Hutch are the antithesis of cool, with their bullshit Trans Am and all. Banacek could never be cool with that haircut...
...DOESN'T TAKE MUCH to whisk an audience off to 19th-century Vienna--a crystal chandelier, rich costumes, goblets filled with champagne, and a willing suspension of cynicism. The only concession Lowell House Opera's production of Johann Strauss's Die Fledermaus makes to the work's opulence is the chandelier, which you can see any time you eat at the Lowell dining hall...
...were not for a tightfisted great-aunt, Henry Bloch is convinced he would be just another Kansas City stockbroker today. The rich spinster rebuffed the ex-serviceman's plea in 1946 for a $50,000 loan to launch a large company that would sell office services to small businesses; she only lent him $5,000, Had she been more openhearted, Henry Bloch believes, he and his brother Richard would have started too grandly and quickly gone broke...
...more than 30 years, through three wars and half a dozen presidencies, Bernstein occupied his corner. But only in the spring and summer. Winters, the Monkey Man would disappear. In 1972 an envious beggar told a newspaper that Bernstein was rich (he was reputed to make up to $150 a day) and had invested his wealth in Florida real estate. Bernstein rushed to the newspaper to complain. "If I had money and property," he protested, "do you think I'd be sitting out in the cold...