Word: riche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...runs a food market on Main Street, shook out the dice to see who would pay the bill for the 10:30 a.m. coffee crowd and said of the President's State of the Union address: "Oh, he's great. When he gets done, we'll have the rich and the poor. But he's great." Even a visitor primed by years of listening to Garrison Keillor's Prairie Home Companion is not sure whether this is a deadpan Minnesota joke, a political opinion--or both...
...nature of its fame. Has a history test ever been drawn up anywhere in the world that did not require the answer: "The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand by Gavrilo Princip in Sarajevo"? The people of Sarajevo have nonetheless stoically retained their fierce pride in a history rich--that is to say complicated--enough to explain even Princip. It is good, however, to have newer memories, though even recollections of the 1984 Winter Olympics touch on the subject of Princip...
...sides could not agree on alimony and child support. Fedders insisted that they be based on his current Government salary, while his wife argued that they be scaled upward once he returned to private practice and cashed in on his cachet as a former SEC enforcement chief. That rich future is now less assured. Said one top Washington lawyer: "He may be a damned good securities lawyer, but he's going to find it tough to land a job in this town...
...voiced actor and narrator of television and film, including Victory at Sea (1954); of an apparent heart attack; in Boston. The Brooklyn-born Scourby began on the New York stage in 1936 as a Shakespearean actor. Though he protested, "What actor wants to be known as a voice?" the rich timbre of his instrument took him early to advertising voice-overs, where he was said at one time to be the highest-priced voice in the business, and to Talking Books for the Blind, where he recorded more than 400 works, including the complete King James Bible, War and Peace...
...Louisiana, political scandal is considered high entertainment, and "honest graft" has been tolerated so long as politicians deliver for their constituents. Former Governor Huey Long, the infamous "Kingfish," presided over a scandal-ridden administration in the late '20s, but he also built schools and roads and soaked the rich to give to the poor. Edwards, 57, the son of a Cajun sharecropper, is heir to Long's populist legacy. He helped to streamline the Louisiana constitution and reorganize the state bureaucracy...