Word: riche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Equally important, there are no great gaps between rich and poor...
...color also came from the uniforms of the official personnel--part of the official "dynamic color palette" chosen by the Olympic Committee for these games. "Brilliant hot magenta, bright vermillion, clear aqua, rich chrome yellow, and vivid green are the five primary Olympic Look colors," according to a promotional release...
...still "give good phone" here, still "take a meeting." On San Vicente Boulevard there is a shop called A Definite Maybe Boutique. That is studio talk. A producer and scriptwriter who has had some success calls it "the coldest town in the country, run by some of the dumbest rich men in the world." He stays, he says, "for the money, obviously." Screenwriters have always bitched; this cliché is true. And yet there are certain circles in which it seems that everyone is writing a screenplay. One Eastern writer who is accustomed to working for "nickels and dimes...
...mean to say that everybody in Southern California is rich," said Charles Dudley Warner in 1888, "but everybody expects to be rich tomorrow...
...number of intersections along about dawn nearly every day, a knot of Mexicans forms. They are in the country illegally and, to them, getting rich tomorrow means hooking a job for as much as 20 bucks. Locally these pockets are called "slave markets." You want your lawn mowed, some boscage trimmed; you drive by, wave a bill, they hop in. They are industrious, trustworthy, and at night they melt back into an area known to all as East Los Angeles, although it is an area much larger than the 7.4 sq. mi. the city defines as East Los Angeles...