Word: riche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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THIS IS not necessarily a bad thing. If it is publicized that the average campaign chest is getting larger and larger, paranoid legislators will work even harder to keep the cash flowing in, and, overworked and exhausted, all the old legislators will die. Only one class of people rich enough to levy the funds necessary to run will be left: lottery winners. Thus elections will be completely democritized, since eligibility to public office will be decided by colored ping-pong balls in an air machine...
...women--well, you know what I mean--they are starting to turn up under brand-names like "Lifestyles." Apparently the manufacturers want women to think of condoms as chic new additions to their lives. Who knows what's next--maybe a special designer condom called "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous...
Disparities in individual characteristics are natural dividers of men. I get allergies, you are poor, and he--though rich--is quite ugly...
...year is 1964. At her mansion in Orlando, Margery Post, the immensely rich only child of the man who invented Grape-Nuts, asks a friend, "Milly, if you had one place on earth where you finally felt comfortable, would you let the Disneys build a park in your backyard?" Milly happens to be a trusted associate of the ice cream and motel magnate Howard Johnson, who is also in Orlando, hoping to stop the Disneys. "I think we could take them," he tells her. "I think we can move into vacations...
That of course happened to Walt Disney, Howard Johnson and Margery's father, C.W. Post. Apple invents their stories through a series of flashbacks and vignettes. Here is Post, a zealous vegetarian, who sees dry cereal not as a means to get rich but as a way to "save all the animals on the face of the earth." There is Johnson, who spends much of each year being chauffeured across America, picking sites for future motels through some instinctive knowledge of where future tired travelers will want to be treated to the comforts of home. Among the three dreamers, Disney...