Word: riche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mastroianni character. But Mastroianni the artist is more complex, a creator of delicious surprises and subtle tonal shifts. Romano, the ebullient loser he plays in Nikita Mikhalkov's Dark Eyes, is a virtual anthology of Marcello males, and the actor finds vibrant life in each of them. In his rich wife's mansion Romano is the buffoon philanderer, tiptoeing toward domestic calamity. At the spa he is the exuberant courtier, wading into a mud bath to retrieve a woman's hat. On business in Russia he is the dapper salesman, mainly of himself. And years later, reminiscing with a stranger...
...stark fantasy goes like this: New York City is two different, alien worlds: Manhattan and the "outer boroughs." Manhattan, America's hub of service and information, is an island where the rich get richer and the poor serve lunch. Each day the sunrise set emerges from its Manhattan high-rises, takes a limo to the office and sits down to run the computer age. At the same hour, folks come in from Brooklyn or Queens to play the worker-bee roles of secretaries, cab drivers, souvlaki vendors and cops. After work they return home in underground cattle cars. The subway...
...look at me that way. Do you think Andrew Carnegie got rich devoting his time to orphans and small animals? Or maybe you'd rather be doing something socially useful like Investment Banking. Give me a break. You want obscene sums of money--well here's your chance. In the tradition of great American fortunes of the past, I here present a small sample from my compilation of entrepreneurial prospects entitled, "Ventures For Modern Day America Where Luckily For Us Most People Are NitWits...
...APPEARS that the English are unwilling to work for no pay. They subscribe to the wholly rational theory that future employers--if there are such a thing in these uncertain economic times--will look with righteous scorn upon such futile experience. Someone they feel who is either foolish or rich enough to work for nothing while still a penniless youth undoubtedly will still be both foolish and rich enough to do so later. Ergo, a distinct lack of natives chomping at the bit to join the lowly hordes of parliamentary researchers...
...dump to hunt rats. There was this guy named Mike who lived there in a big refrigerator crate. I remember one day he was cooking up some potatoes he'd found, and he suddenly looked around and said to me, arms outstretched, 'This place is rich. Rich.' It really made an impression...