Word: riche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this afternoon a lovely couple, both filthy rich, visited my office. They asked for the same thing as you but offered $499,980 more. Now that I think about it, I might give your affiliation to them...
Enclosed is $35--keep the extra and buy yourself a hat. As for those rich folks, let me tell you this: are they willing to arrange teas...
...occupy a four-story town house in the coveted East 60s, he notes that one of the latest examples of conspicuous display is the stretch limousines lined up in front of what he calls "this week's restaurant of the century." Inside these land yachts, the young and newly rich slurp drinks while waiting for their names to be announced for the next available table. The highest status will be conferred on the toff who gets embraced by the restaurant's owner...
...city driven by ethnic and racial hostility, political ambition and status. What of idealism, ethics and refined impulses? In the words of one fulsome character, "fuhgedaboudit." Action is motivated by the seven deadly sins, distributed evenhandedly among the city's blacks, Irish, Jews and that overlooked minority, the rich Wasps...
Wolfe will most likely be denounced for creating comic characters who accurately reflect familiar and self-important fixtures in New York life. At the top of the heap are "social X rays," rumpless women of a certain age who believe one cannot be too rich or too thin. Sixtyish men of this stratum are frequently accompanied by "lemon tarts," sleek, young blonds. Sherman McCoy is a decent well-bred sort, neither more nor less lustful than most confident 38-year-old males and particularly amusing when he gives facts and figures about how one can go broke in Manhattan...