Word: riche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite such accolades, and the attendant financial success, Soltner remains modest and has a tendency to run scared. "I worry most about the high prices we have to charge because our costs keep going up. Even rich people have a breaking point. I tell my staff to be very, very careful with customers. Today we are on top, but tomorrow who knows...
...helicopters whisked away Ferdinand Marcos, his family and entourage than the looters and the curious began to arrive. They found a half- eaten bowl of caviar and the hospital bed and medical equipment of a sick man. They gawked at the scores of pairs of shoes of a rich woman. One visitor was reminded of a line from the Japanese poet Basho: "Autumn leaves, the remains of a samurai's dream." Eustacia Soliven, a Manila dentist, reflected later, "Maybe we have learned something from all this. After all, the best things we see in France are the reminders...
That's right, folks: Pretty in Pink really is about whether the rich boy will invite the poor girl to the senior prom. Though it is at pains to present high school as a class society in which the rich (in their preppy Miami Vice linens) already know how to use the tyranny of style to ostracize poor Andie and Duckie (in their junk-punk-funk handmades), at base the picture is Love Finds Andie Walsh. And when Stanton must play a Judge Hardy on the skids, the psychodrama can get awfully wet. But within this familiar format, Hughes creates...
...Hill's testimony resulted in a string of convictions. The canary later sang to Nicholas Pileggi, a veteran journalist, in various secret locations around the U.S. The result, told largely in Hill's words, has the sound and horror of authenticity, The Godfather minus the glamour. There is no rich, family feeling here, no accretion of loyalties and vendettas. There is only the nostalgia of a successful sociopath for a lawless past. "Truckloads of swag. Fur coats, televisions, clothes--all for the asking," the thug recalls. "When I was broke I just went out and robbed some more...
...future plans. Everything is for the moment, and associates, even those who gave him a hand, are betrayed for the sake of the bigger payoff, the easier deal. Only at home is life a chore. "You'll find that most wiseguy wives do their own housework, no matter how rich they are," Hill tells Pileggi, "because strangers can't be trusted to keep their mouths shut." Modern wiseguys who cannot keep their mouths shut are dealt with in a style that has not changed since the '30s. He describes a friend's fate: "Tommy used a piano wire. Remo...