Word: riche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...work, playing by the rules and, above all, devotion to family. If that sounds rather Republican-indeed, Reaganite-Mondale, Ferraro and their supporting cast converted it into an assault on the "fairness issue." In contrast to what Mondale in his acceptance speech called Reagan's "Government of the rich, by the rich and for the rich," they said the Democrats will treat the entire nation as an extended family, offering unstinted help and succor to all its members...
Should the U.S. now dominate the Games for the first time since 1968, some collective credibility will be tempered, but the individual gains should be as rich as ever. In addition to Carl Lewis, America certainly has an Olympian abundance...
Nothing could be simpler than Spark's subject, Harvey and Effie Gotham's marriage. Harvey is a rich man who doesn't have to work and who spends his abundant leisure time studying the Book of Job, on which he is preparing an essay. The problem of why suffering exists is, for him, the only problem. Effie is a generous-spirited but angry woman, an antinomian who feels that her anger at the excesses and errors of capitalism means that she does not have to abide by the rules--anyone's rules...
...stereotype of academic "Camp Harvard's" patrons as rich and snobby, mixed feelings prevail...
...They live alone, slave and exacting mistress of a crumbling manor, and when the house burns down, Grandma blames Erendira and takes the girl out to the desert to earn their keep on her back. Erendira's passive expertise as a prostitute makes her famous and her grandmother rich; soldiers and senators pay dearly for her favors. Only a young man named Ulysses has the key to her chaste heart. He will free Erendira by killing Grandma-he will try, anyway, with a knife, explosives and a ton of rat poison-but the tenacious crone is as hard...