Word: riche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that comfortable, especially if they have a considerable amount of money and would like to keep it. In a number of countries, unsympathetic regimes and currency devaluations are forcing the well-heeled to move on. In many places the threat of kidnaping, terrorism and harassment prevents the rich from flaunting their privilege...
MARRIED. Victoria Principal, 35, doe-eyed, taut-bodied TV actress who plays Dallas' goody-goody Pam Ewing; and Harry Glassman, 42, plastic surgeon to the rich and sagging of Beverly Hills; both for the second time; in, of course, Dallas. The wedding was small and private, but the show's cast was invited to a celebration brunch the following...
Nathan Zuckerman made his debut in Philip Roth's The Ghost Writer (1979); the hero was an earnest young author in the process of learning that art and life issued contradictory demands. By the time of Zuckerman Unbound (1981), Nathan had become absurdly rich and famous, thanks to a scandalous best-selling novel that estranged him from his father and the rest of his family. Zuckerman's punishment came in The Anatomy Lesson (1983), in which he appeared as a neurasthenic wreck hoping to start life all over again as a medical student...
...cacophony of today's voices, Kanfer, a senior editor of TIME, invents some delightful ones of his own: an aging sleight-of-hand artist called the Wizard, who sets up a fake country; an oil-rich emir who produces a TV sitcom to sell his political message with reworked Borscht Belt shtick; a splendidly confused interpreter who adores women's legs and finds his paradise among the Rockettes at Radio City Music Hall. Serious evil--the garage sale of the title --lurks here too, and the hero, a TV newsman, finds, as so many innocent investigators do these days, that...
...Ultimately, the alternation between poverty and short bursts of solvency proves too much for his parents' marriage. When they tell Mark, at age 14, that they are divorcing, he grieves, blames the world for blighting their happiness and reaches a decision: "People are monsters and I'd better get rich or I'll have to depend on monsters." After reading a book on sunken treasures, Mark becomes obsessed with finding a ship laden with the spoils of Peru that went down en route to the Caribbean in 1820. Years of research, to the exclusion of his schoolwork...