Word: riche
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Parisian pretensions aside, the Square is not without its share of serious coffee houses, the perfect place to start a relationship, end one, read a book, or just mainline caffeine. In fact, most places offer rich brews, with varying degrees of atmosphere, although the prices are usually steep...
...bellicose gibes at the Soviets, the Mondale camp argues, have frozen relations between the two superpowers. Lately though, Reagan has cooled his rhetoric, while the Soviets are sounding as mean as he portrays them. Then there is the charge that Reagan's economic policies have demonstrably favored the rich at the expense of the poor. According to a Congressional Budget Office study, households earning more than $20,000 a year reaped 85% of the tax reductions, while households earning less than $20,000 have paid for two-thirds of the budget cuts. (The Reaganauts counter that the supply-side...
Like many mainline Protestant groups, the Presbyterians are rich ($1.2 bil lion in contributions last year) but have been suffering from a slippage in membership. Since 1968, the rolls have shrunk by 1 million, with a decrease of 35,000 last year. The 278-year-old U.S. church is troubled by hostility between Evangelicals and social activists in matters as diverse as theology, foreign missions and ecumenism. For 122 years, the Southern and Northern wings of the church were separate entities. Last year they reunited, and Andrews and Thompson have served as Co-Stated Clerks on an interim basis. Says...
...context as well as its contents. Charles Lang Freer, who made his millions in rolling stock in the boom railroad years of the late 19th century, was an impassioned Orientalist, a disciple of the "Boston bonzes," chiefly of Ernest Fenollosa. As Bernard Berenson fanned the ardor of the American rich for the Italian Renaissance, so Fenollosa was busy shaping American taste for Oriental art. He adored Whistler's work, calling him "the nodule, the universalizer, the interpreter of East to West." Freer concurred, and in the 1890s he became Whistler's chief patron - not always an easy role...
...transport him out of the temporal dimension makes a stirring set piece. But his identification with his character is so complete that the novel seems to be spun from their shared fantasy fulfillment. Difficulties give way before Scum. Whatever he needs comes conveniently to hand, whether building materials, a rich art collector or a nubile girl to tempt his sagging libido...