Word: riche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Quaker Rich Comizio notched a touchdown for the seventh game in a row, quarterback John McGeehan scored on an eight-yd, run, Tom Murphy slammed home a 27-yd field goal and Mike O'Neil ran for a 52-yd. TD before the hosts (now 3.4, 2.3 Ivy) saw the Penn goal line...
...danger had been met, he said, but Brown would not purchase cyanide. But not everyone thought the vote was a clear advance for nuclear awareness. Child Psychiatrist Robert Coles of the Harvard Medical School reported the reaction of a blue-collar worker in Lynn, Mass., who said, "These spoiled rich kids. Everyone else is going to suffer a slow death, and they want a quick...
...there will always be a place in Fantasyland for Annette Funicello, 42. "Disney is close to my heart," says Funicello, who will see viewers real soon in Lots of Luck, a movie for the Disney cable channel. The comedy casts Funicello as a suburban housewife whose family gets rich on an incredible streak of contest winning but finally "goes back to being the nice family we once were." Next for Funicello? Would you believe a reunion with her old beach-blanket beau, Frankie Avalon, 44, complete with a-that's right-Beach Party '85? But no wild bikinis...
...younger brothers grew up, they had to accustom themselves to dramatic swings in their domestic circumstances. Cheever earned his living by writing short stories for The New Yorker; it was a precarious trade, subject to editorial quirkiness in the matters of rejection or payment: "He was rich sometimes and he was poor sometimes, and both of these conditions were as dependent on his mood as they were on his net worth (which also fluctuated pretty wildly...
Some are reminiscent of the rabbinical parables Singer heard his father tell in Poland. A rich miser lends his neighbor a silver spoon. Next day the borrower returns the utensil, and brings with it a smaller one because "your tablespoon gave birth to a teaspoon." Delighted, the miser offers a set of candlesticks, only to learn, two days later, that they have passed away. "How can candlesticks die?" screams the rich man. Greed gets a talmudic reply: "If spoons can give birth, candlesticks...