Word: riche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...third of graduates who opt to leave the university setting end up working directly on military contracts, while another one-third work on commercial products whose primary market is the defense industry, according to Rich Cowan, chief organizer of the rally...
...father's footsteps, Leslie senses the postwar crumbling of old barricades and makes his moves. He joins the local Young Conservatives, never minding that most of his colleagues despise him. He courts and wins Charlotte Fanner, the awkward and unhappy daughter of the village's titled landowner. He grows rich through investments and gains political power, but he does not win the respect of those who know him best. As Dorothy Simcox preaches to her husband, "Perhaps God made people like Leslie Titmuss so we can find out who's nice...
...been slipping into New York City to rehearse, and last week she made her off- Broadway debut in Marguerite Duras' 1977 play The Eden Cinema. The setting is French Indochina during the 1930s, and Shields, 20, portrays Suzanne, a fetching 16-year-old who is courted by a rich plantation owner. Director Francoise Kourilsky approached her for the part last year. Shields, who is majoring in French literature and had studied Duras' work at school, readily accepted her first professional nonmovie role. "She is a very strong actress," says Kourilsky of her star, "and takes direction very well." The reviewers...
Sophie Tucker said, "I have been rich, and I have been poor. Rich is better." Of course it is, especially when spring arrives and the IRS closes in. But when most people imagine what life would be like after winning the lottery, they do not come up with 5,400 shoes. The methodical analyst switches on his calculator. If Imelda Marcos changed her shoes three times a day, and never wore the same pair twice, it would take her more than two years and five months to work through her shoe supply--as it existed on the day she fled...
...establish a little macho for the coming budget battles. Only a couple of hours went by before White House Spokesman Larry Speakes was explaining that the President had no recollection of letting out an SOB. He had just turned to Packard and remarked, "It's sunny and you're rich...