Word: riche
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...texture of American manners is rich and bewildering...
...upper class sees social pushiness as a trait of the new rich. Quarreling with a salesperson or bank teller is considered gauche?it should be handled discreetly by the husband's secretary. An Internal Revenue Service investigator observes that the new rich are the ones who cheat flagrantly on their income taxes. "The traditionally wealthy," says he, "are accustomed to paying high taxes and know the graceful ways to avoid...
...taken entirely for granted it is hard to grasp that anyone, like this old man, need ever worry about having to pay for such services. Indeed a well-known British correspondent, trying to bring home this contrast, recently wrote an article that began: "If I could be rich, beautiful, young, but above all healthy, there is nowhere that I would rather live than New York...." This expresses a sentiment shared by many Europeans...
Enter the jolly trio of Sandro, a rich, glossy Italian count; Jenny, a golden-haired English aristocrat; and Colly, a wisecracking American who enjoys one of his nation's largest inherited fortunes. Relaxing in Istanbul, they stumble across the huge drug operation run by Mustafa Algan Bey, ostensibly Turkey's premier dealer in precious carpets. Their adventures take them in and out of jail cells, dungeons, buses, trucks and steamers and across the length and breadth of Poppyland. About the only peril they do not indulge in is erotica. However, Scotsman Ivor Drummond's dippy novel could also serve...
...American detective represents a rich, impatient New York client who is paying a lot of money to locate his vanished, overfed son, believed to be in Paris. Cage and the City of Light are getting along fine until he gets involved in the misfortunes of a 6-ft. 7-in. black basketball star, Roscoe Hadley, known as "Adlay" to his Gallic worshipers. Cage winds up representing Adlay without fee against sundry real and imagined threats on his life from Paris to Amsterdam and some mob intervention from California. Nonmonetary compensation comes from a sexy Anglo-Parisienne who outsmarts just about...