Word: riche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...potential clients. Their motives, the U.S. lawyers insisted, were pure. As Melvin Belli, the flamboyant San Francisco attorney sometimes called the "King of Torts," put it, somewhat inelegantly, "I am here to bring justice and money to those poor little people who have suffered at the hands of those rich sons of bitches." But others saw less admirable reasons for the legal presence. Said Mont Hoyt, chairman of the American Bar Association's international law and practice section: "They're trying to get a piece of the settlement...
...good values of his decent dad (Hector Elizondo), a plumber whose trade may be humble but whose spirit is not. There is originality and poignancy in Neal Marshall's story about competing father figures, and Garry Marshall's direction is unforced but never lackadaisical. The movie is rich in the eccentrically comic details of club life. It is good to see Dillon's quiet manner as a sign of intelligence, not sullenness, and Crenna and Elizondo are both superb as the grownups competing for his soul...
...field trials annually. To boot (now comes the information picked up around the fringe), Ralston Purina is self-described as "the most trusted name in pet foods," while Mighty Dog is "the pure beef brand," though Kal Kan is "the stuff great dogs are made of and Edge is "rich in brewer's yeast...
...yielded a rich trove of Bronze Age artifacts, some of which are now at a museum in Bodrum, Turkey: 6,000 lbs. of copper ingots (the "biscuits"), a store of tin (which was combined with copper to make the bronze that gives the era its name), scattered pottery, gold objects, amphoras filled with glass beads, and some ivory from an elephant tusk and a hippopotamus tooth. Says Bass: "I can say without hesitation that this is the most exciting and important ancient shipwreck found in the Mediterranean...
Ever since the coming of the welfare state two generations ago, there has been an increasing repugnance to the idea of the rich enjoying essential services that are denied to the poor. But that same period has seen a drastic change both in the meaning of essential services and in the way people die. At the turn of the century, most people died fairly quickly of infectious diseases, primarily influenza and pneumonia. Now that those diseases can be cured with drugs, the chief killers are slow degenerative diseases, notably heart ailments and cancer. At the turn of the century, most...