Word: riche
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...specialists. Rather, they are the same sort of criminals who steal automobiles, TV sets and jewelry. "Let me dispel some myths," said Gilbert Raguideau, a French government expert on the subject. "There is no mastermind, no international art Mafia. We all have heard the legend of the mad, rich connoisseur who buys stolen masterworks. He does not exist." The works are sold to frequently unsuspecting collectors in the U.S. and abroad through dealers who care more about turning a quick profit than about checking on an object's pedigree. Says Volpe: "Everyone in the art market is buying questionable...
...Poet-Essayist Adrienne Rich, it is "the great unwritten story." Author Nancy Friday calls it "the last taboo," and Psychology Writer Lucy Freeman sees it as the feminist movement's "last liberation." The subject of these slightly breathless descriptions: the tangled, ambivalent and often hostile relationship between mothers and daughters...
...seeking that balance, the bishops rapped both capitalism ("It has made the distance between rich and poor even greater by placing capital before work") and Marxist strategies (They "have sacrificed many Christian values and have fallen into unrealistic and Utopian notions"). The bishops condemned the "national security" ideologies that undergird most of Latin America's military regimes for leading "to the abuse of power and violation of human rights," but they also denounced leftist terrorism. Echoing the Pope's address, the document cautions priests to "divest themselves of all political ideology." But it does advocate Christian action. Said...
Today, along with bullion sales to oil-rich sheiks, monied Asian merchants and Europeans, there is surging demand in the U.S. Of the 54.2 million oz. of gold that entered commerce worldwide last year, almost one-fifth−11.5 million oz.−was sold in America. The largest jump has come in the purchase of South Africa's heavily promoted Krugerrands. Last year the apartheid government in Pretoria minted 6 million of the 1-oz. coins, and nearly 3.7 million were imported by the U.S. That is more than twice as many as were bought the year before...
...Constantinople they find that Burton deBusch (James Hanes) is the mastermind behind SPAM's plot to fill the snuff boxes of the British with opium and blow away their entire navy. In the end, thanks to the efforts of O'Genick's fellow travelers, Spasm the Butler (Rich O'Leary) and Ella Mental (Doug Fitch), the scheme is thwarted. (Leavitt and Peirce's sales have dropped sharply since the show opened...