Word: riche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Wolfe the pharse-maker. Masters of the Universe are the ultimate egotists, absorbed in the pursuit of a power that supercedes dollar values. In a way that differentiates him from his old-line WASP father, McCoy is a patrician with an all-consuming greed. Not merely to be rich, but to be the richest. The most. For as McCoy knows, it's not the money, but the control that he seeks on the trading floor, in his 20-room apartment, in the pied-a-terre of his mistress...
Uzbekistan, one of the Soviet Union's 15 republics, is rich in cotton, fruit -- and corruption. According to Pravda and other publications, the republic's leading government and Communist Party officials shared in the embezzlement of $6.5 billion during the 1970s and early 1980s. They also permitted Mafia-style crime families to thrive on such supposedly capitalist rackets as drugs, prostitution, gambling and murder for hire. A number of officials helped themselves to the republic's cotton-growing revenues by overstating the size of the republic's cotton crops, then skimming off part of the proceeds. Among those recently arrested...
Despite his wealth, Icahn is not about to be distracted from the chase by a taste for rich people's toys. Says he: "Yachts and fleets of limousines and private airplanes don't appeal to me at all. I want a comfortable life. What's the point of all that hassle?" The only son of a New York City schoolteacher and a lawyer, Icahn was the first student from Far Rockaway High School in Queens to be accepted by Princeton, where he studied philosophy. His mother worried about his future when he dropped out of medical school...
...Paris haute couture house, the decor is outright iconoclastic. Instead of the usual hushed beige backdrops, little gilt chairs and artfully placed mirrors, rich oranges and reds glow on every side. The black border motif on the rugs and walls summons up visions of black flames. Bright pink branches thrust upward from behind small neo-Martian chairs, and the sconces are big burnished theater masks, enough to scare a timid millionairess right out of her chiffon...
...whose designs might sport a rude cabbage rose, perhaps on the derriere. He is the one who put middle-aged women into bubble shapes or bustles, often at mid-thigh. That led him to an unintended refutation of the Duchess of Windsor's maxim that one cannot be too rich or too thin. Sometimes his widely copied dresses show more skeleton than flesh, but so ubiquitous are they at galas and cocktail parties in the U.S. that Women's Wear Daily has taken to commenting on "social knees." His influence can now be seen internationally, from a pretty young girl...