Word: riche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...life being aggressively masculine might (in mid-life, after going through several marriages and two World Wars) wonder what it would be like to take a vacation from his attack hormones. At the end of The Garden of Eden, in any case, the usual Hemingway order is restored: the rich, perverted bitch- wife goes crazy and departs, and the girl lover, lately lesbian, turns into one of Papa's adoring, delicious, perfect girls of one dimension...
...earns an average of $300,000 annually. Poaching is rife: last month City wine bars were abuzz with the news that Peregrine Moncreiffe, former head of gilt trading at London's Shearson-Lehman International, had jumped to E.F. Hutton for a salary of about $1.5 million. The newly rich brokerage crowd is helping to push up real estate prices in such flossy London neighborhoods as Kensington and Chelsea, where housing costs have climbed 20% to 30% in the past year...
...chain and the sublime San Domenico in Imola, near Bologna, are seeking locations. Not all agree that New York is the only place to be. Michael Hutchings explains why he and the Roux brothers chose Santa Barbara. "This is a cosmopolitan town and is a getaway for the very rich. People demand a high quality of life, and so it's perfect for a first-quality restaurant." Lower overhead and less competition are also factors. Andre Surmain, the founder of New York's Lutece but now known for his Relais a Mougins in the south of France, opened a branch...
...biggest single cause of Turner's current balance-sheet problem is the MGM/UA acquisition from wily Owner Kirk Kerkorian. Analysts estimate that Turner overpaid as much as several hundred million dollars for the moviemaking studio and its assets, especially a rich library of some 3,600 films that includes such gems as Gone With the Wind and The Wizard of Oz. In the process the Atlanta tycoon had to raise nearly $1.2 billion, mostly by issuing high- interest junk bonds, thereby pushing TBS's total debt to nearly $2 billion. He now faces a $600 million repayment that comes...
...cuts to a specialty shop that sells chinchilla bedspreads, bottles of $1,500 perfume and designer pistols. Mauri, who acts as tour guide, is portrayed as a prime example of American capitalism's cruelty to the poor, a man who was ejected from his humble rented room by a rich and heartless landlady who wanted to turn it into a sewing room, a bent but not broken castout...