Word: riche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Poor Little Rich Girl seemingly had everything going for it: a notorious beauty who died an impoverished recluse in 1979, a supporting cast of lovers that included Howard Hughes and James Dean, and a seasoned biographer, working from interviews with the heiress as well as her unpublished diaries. Random House was delighted but not surprised by the enthusiastic "money quotes" in early reviews. After all, the work had been chosen as a Book-of-the-Month Club alternate, Vanity Fair had excerpted a chapter, and the film rights had been sold...
Nonetheless, plans for the film are proceeding as if nothing untoward had happened, and several publishers have expressed interest in reprinting Poor Little Rich Girl, factoids and all. "If it ever comes out again," claims Heymann, "because of all the publicity it would do extraordinarily well...
...coupled with pictures to observe. Improvements in maps or changes in ideas of the human body cannot be expressed in words along. Nevertheless, The Discoverers makes a fine night table book--not like the coffee table book holding pretty pictures for amusing patter over cocktails, but offering a rich source of new ideas for adventuresome dreams. Matthew L. Meyerson
Writers in ancient times were fascinated by Sardis. According to legend, the city was founded by sons of Heracles after the Trojan War. In the Iliad, Homer writes of the city "beneath the snowy Tmolus in the rich land of Hyde." The poet Sappho laments that she cannot obtain the colorful Lydian hat of Sardis for her daughter Cleis. The historian Herodoturs relates that when Cyrus the Great captured Sardis for the Persians after a siege in 547 B.C., he ordered that the vanquished Croesus be burned alive on a funeral pyre. (Croesus survived when Apollo intervened by sending...
...began to protest. "Not necessarily law school," he amended, "but you'll use it and it'll help you in what you do." I relaxed--perhaps John prophesied a career reviewing TV shows like Perry Mason and Drag- net for local community papers, while I settle down with rich S.J.N...