Word: riche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...proposed the bill, saying he will wait for the results from a study of people who benefit from rent-control that was independently requested by Councilor Sheila Russell. The study will provide statistics on their ages and incomes--"Especially incomes," said Russell, who cited "horror stories you hear about rich people living in rent-controlled apartments...
...success. I've grown fat and rich by discovering the vast Bowl-a-Drome of the American psyche. But I still don't have the guts to buy a pair of lizard- skin boots, although I'd like some. It's just too much money to pay. Part of me would like to buy a really nice guitar too, but I know I don't really play well enough. I keep the price tag on my guitar to remind me. It cost...
What is this perversion of freedom about? In an enthralling series of articles on the Levin killing, Samuel G. Freedman of the New York Times observed that rich parents and poor parents are alike in their promiscuous freedom giving. The poor let their children hustle for subsistence. The rich buy them off. It is as if parents are afraid to touch the people they created; and in a sense this may be so. By the time parents are old enough to have adolescent children, they often are undergoing second-adolescent turmoils of their own. The elder teenager beholds the younger...
...producers have minimized the comparisons to the novel by calling the screenplay a "palimpsest," a Greek word for a manuscript that has been partially erased and written upon several times. While the book was a lengthy work rife with literary references, every moment full of life's rich pageant, the film tends to focus on the murder mystery, the Spanish Inquisition and the relationship between the brilliant investigating monk, William of Baskerville (Sean Connery) and his young apprentice, Adso of Melk (Christian Slater...
Tony Armas opened Boston's second-inning rallywith a single to centerfield. Armas moved tosecond on a wild pitch by Blue Jay starter andloser Duane Ward, and scored on a double toright-center by Rich Gedman...