Word: riche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard has very loyal alumni, a lot of rich friends, and an excellent fundraising network," said the Council Vice President Anne F. Decker, explaining the consistent level of contributions to the University. "Also, a lot of foundations want to support Harvard because the educational programs there are so interesting," said Decker, who oversaw the report's preparation...
...dimension to her sex life. Was she a pervert?" The question could only be put by Judith Krantz, back again with her patented blend of eavesdropping and name dropping. Her heroine, Maxi Amberville ("her surpassingly green eyes, the precise color of Imperial Jade"), is the customary flaring, rich, tousled, naughty, gorgeous protean number. This time she is a publishing vicereine with a field of ex-husbands, a bewitching mother, a homosexual brother, a heterosexual near-blind brother, and an eleven-year-old daughter by magnificent, "fascinatingly brooding, darkly luminous" Renaissance Rocco. From Maxi's view at the top, Krantz scatters...
...American (Anthony Heald) has failed to sort out the conflicting impulses of his roles as observer, returning revolutionary, reunited friend and working journalist. His former cellmate (Joe Urla) pecks away at poetry but works primarily for a malign, fanatical government minister. In rich and subtle performances, the opponents lacerate each other with unwelcome truths as they strive to rekindle affection. Then, in a finely calibrated and powerful final scene that shifts back to 1970, at what the two believed would be the hour of their death, Nelson makes their antagonism all the sadder. As they quake, bound and blindfolded...
There are the makings of a play in the resentment between the housewife, who nurses the mother, and her sister, whose answer to everything is writing a check. But Bergman settles for stale attempts at satire about city dwellers vs. suburbanites, trendy vs. square relations, rich vs. poor ones. The actors struggle to give the play life, but there is only one moment of insight. As Thomas' ever irreverent husband, Silver says, "I'm flip, which is another way of being shy." Perhaps that is Bergman's problem, and it is surely the problem of a weary genre: plenty...
George Johnson, the no-nonsense president who has presided over the dynamic emergence of George Mason University, ten miles across the Potomac from Washington, unblushingly describes his public university's mission. "We are entrepreneurial," he says, "responding to the needs of our community." That community is rich Fairfax County, Va., one of the nation's fast-growing areas, loaded with high-tech corporations employing professionals who demand continuing education. "We have CEOs who want doctorates in economics," says Johnson. "Their wives are considering going to law school...