Word: riche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ajemian's new assignment as bureau chief in Boston is, he says, "a thrilling homecoming. I started there 36 years ago as a sportswriter and have always been lifted by its character. Its power is less clenched, less sweeping perhaps, but rich with intellect and history and strong, gentle minds...
Last September in Edmonton, Alta., the Pope denounced the gap between rich northern countries and poor southern ones. Said he: "The poor people and poor nations-poor in different ways, not only lacking food but also deprived of freedom and other human rights-will judge those people who take these goods away from them, amassing to themselves the imperialistic monopoly of economic and political supremacy at the expense of others." In the Newfoundland fishing community of Flatrock, the Pope condemned concentrations of economic power and said that key industries like food production could become "controlled by the profit motive...
...friend Marco (Greg Martyn) embodies a more generic rags-to-riches cliche. A strapping Italian hunk, he becomes the rich actress's kept man, uses her money to start himself in business, then (after eluding an attempt to deport him) vows to get an education and make lots of money. "I'm gonna have it all, Jake," he announces, celebrating what is surely that line's 100th anniversary in show business. The soap opera continues with Bridget and Georgie O'Donnell (Alice Krige and Judi Bowker), a pair of sisters who flee Ireland when Bridget...
...reputation as a 20th century music specialist, a distinction that has little appeal at the American box office. By contrast, the Cleveland Orchestra is one of the proudest in the land. George Szell, who led it from 1946 until his death in 1970, made it into a rich, breathtakingly precise ensemble. His standards were upheld in the '70s by Lorin Maazel, who resigned to become director, briefly, of the Vienna State Opera. Would Dohnányi be right...
Horses not only had ideal attributes in this scheme of things, they also made plausible heroes. The great example is Stubbs' prosaically titled Hambletonian, Rubbing Down, 1800. Hambletonian, winner of both the St. Leger and the Doncaster Gold Cup in 1796, belonged 3 to a rich and deep-gambling young baronet named Sir Henry Vane-Tempest. In 1799 Vane-Tempest put him up against Diamond, another star horse, for a purse of 3,000 guineas. (At the time, a farmer's laborer might have made the equivalent of five guineas a year.) The match drew the biggest crowd...