Word: riche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Magnificent Seven, who have given up their lives of pillage and rape to serve the Counselor. Then there are misfits of another sort, the town cripples and carnival freaks who are likewise "touched by the angel's wing" of the Counselor. Arrayed against this band are the rich planters from the coast, who see the movement as threatening their authority...
Today the man whom the Watergate grand jury branded forever as an "unindicted coconspirator" is rich, healthy and remarkably respectable. Apart from his $119,000 annual pensions and $300,000 in Government-paid expenses, his last TV interview cost CBS $500,000, and his last move from New York to New Jersey netted him a real-estate profit of more than $1.5 million. Though his wife Pat is in frail health after a second stroke last fall, Nixon is quite fit and chipper. Using a new Lanier word processor, he is tapping out his fifth post-White House book...
...critiqued the inquiries. "That's a great question," he told a British journalist who asked him whether he was running for the money or rather, like Jesse Owens, to become a folk hero for mankind. "My objective," he answered forthrightly, "is to be the role model, not the rich...
This success is due chiefly to the rich, seductive vocals of Linda Hopper and Lynda Stipe. Whether they are reciting rhymes like "One-two buckle my shoes" in flat monotone, or creating beautiful, dark harmonies in "Choukoutien" and "Elaine's Song", Hopper and Stipe manage to embrace both the earthy and unearthly, without sounding arch or immature...
Because stars and stripes remain among its many symbols, Jerde and Suss man call their effervescent design Festive Federalism. But it is much more. It is a rich synthesis of 20th century art, from Mird's squiggles and Mondrian's Broadway Boogie-woogie to Charles Eames' playfulness and Sister Mary Corita's sense of celebration, brought together, as Jerde puts it, "to express a moment rather than memorialize an epic...