Word: riche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mother's milk of politics, two well-suckled races are under way in Oklahoma and New York. Tulsa Democrat James Jones, chairman of the House Budget Committee, is being targeted by a heavily financed Republican effort. Manhattan's Bill Green has met a match as rich as he: Andrew Stein...
...Mafia any less active in Italy, where organized crime has a hold on every major city. In Sicily, the old Mafia has infested every aspect of the island's life. Once known for its poverty, Sicily may now be addicted to a rich diet of drug money. Some Sicilians, in fact, wonder how anything will ever get done without the Mafia to navigate a hopelessly tangled bureaucracy. As a Palermo businessman said last week, "Our city administration is so bad that without the 'friends of friends,' how are we ever going to get anything accomplished? At least...
...handy. She acts in a local theater, doing brave combat with the role of Blanche DuBois and going to bed with the director. Leaving her, he carries the expensive leather suitcases - "the two prettiest things I ever saw" - Lucy gave him. "One of the small misfortunes of being a rich girl, and she'd known it all her life, was that people would often exaggerate their pleasure when you gave expensive gifts ... It nearly always made her feel foolish, but it hadn't ever stopped her from making the same mistake the next time...
THOUGH the first musical for the relatively new Huntington Company, the production sports a professional polish. Delivering a baritone as rich as his impeccable surroundings, Rex Hays makes a commanding Baron, carrying himself like a true mythical aristocrat and offering entertainment fit for any peer. Even to, Hays cannot rival the performance of Mitchell Greenberg as Gaston, who makes even simple, stereotypical conquest seem lovable if not admirable. Breathing too little personality into her stereotype-fashional character, Donalyn Petrucci offers neither the melodious delivery of Hays nor the charisma of Gaston...
...social statement and character study, then, Impulse stumbles. As a visual collage of human evil and a psychological work of suspense, it succeeds, and occasionally even sparkles. It is the product of a rich, but imperfect collective creative psyche...