Word: riche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This is the sort of book one savors, a few pages at a time, over a period of days. It is a fascinating conversation; Bunuel's narrative style is as felicitous as was is life, a life rich in experience and dreams. His perceptions, his gossip, his portrait of his time reveal him to have been not only the artistic genius we find in his films, but a charming personality of deep sensitivity and conviction...
...CHAPTER is particularly amusing and thought-provoking, but many other passages in The Hearts of Men deserve close scrutiny. Whether Ehrenreich is examining the macho image as portrayed in films of the '70s or having a good laugh about the hot-tub culture, she substantiates her claims with a rich store of medical, psychological, and popular articles, as well as more than a few personal accounts. Many of her points are made with graceful subtlely. Others, while sometimes questionable in their logic, are direct and often funny. At one point, examining the link, among the New Right, of anti-communism...
...Financial Instruments, with perpetrating the largest criminal tax fraud in U.S. history. The defendants were alleged to have supplied investors with more than $130 million in bogus income tax deductions for the years 1979 and 1980. The previous record case: last September's indictment of Oil Trader Marc Rich and two of his associates for concealing more than $100 million in taxable income...
...world in 1971 [Oklahoma and Colorado finished second and third in the Associated Press poll], but some teams are too good to be measured just by opponents. I think our team was, and this team is. We probably had a better defense, with guys like Larry Jacobson, Rich Glover and Willie Harper. Heck, John Button [three-time All-Pro Defensive Tackle for the Dallas Cowboys] played behind Jacobson, but it's hard to be intense defensively in a 60-point game. Osborne was a brilliant offensive assistant when I was there. I think they're even better because...
...fastidious person in the throes of love is a rich source of mirth. Tibba spends a weekend with her boisterous aunt and uncle and promptly falls for a rich, spoiled youth, whose brazen mother pushes her way at once into the Islington redoubt. Giles is swept into Louise's ample embrace and hauled off to a humiliating weekend in Cambridge, the place where he failed to get tenure years before and where her thesis was summarily rejected more recently. As their lives get messier, father and daughter start to turn on each other...