Word: riche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hershey Bar whore ("there wasn't much I wouldn't do for a nickel's worth of chocolate"). Starting out in a St. Louis orphanage, Jones works his way up, first as a masseur in Miami, then as a would-be writer who massages the egos of the rich and famous in New York and Europe. There is a fetal plot that would have developed into a romantically justified kidnaping of a child from his father, a European industrialist...
...life." Oleg Cassini, 74, needed no other guidance. He lived high, and he lasted. Intermittently a dress designer, he played polo on the Army cavalry team during World War II and basked in '40s Hollywood, married Gene Tierney, drank with Errol Flynn and romanced Grace Kelly, even as her rich parents scoured Europe for bluer blood. Cassini is best known for being couturier to Jackie Kennedy ("I want all ((my outfits)) to be original and no fat little women hopping around in the same dress"), and his memoir of Camelot is lively. He also offers good gossip, recounting Aly Khan...
...candidates hesitate to go into debt in pursuit of the presidency. But du Pont abhors debt. Because the family fortune has been splintered over seven generations, he is not quite so rich as his name suggests; he says his worth is about $7 million. He lives well within his means, managing all his own investments, frugally watching the bills. His aides affectionately describe him as "tight." To rephrase Hemingway: The rich are different from you and me; they spend less money...
...Seaspray agents had set up a small military satellite dish outside the Honduran house, hiding it with only a plastic garbage bag. An operations security team, Yellow Fruit, flew a large commercial satellite dish to Honduras so that the Queens Hunter team could more convincingly play the part of rich Yanqui tourists...
...just before sunrise on a recent summer morning high in the Boyaca mountains of central Colombia. Already the steep terrain was bustling with prospectors called guaqueros, or treasure hunters. They were seeking their fortunes in the Cosquez cut, a mountainside excavation rich with dazzling gems -- emeralds...