Word: riche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Richard III, Shakespeare wrote of armies tramping across medieval England, but the words could equally apply to the hordes of developers who in recent times have swept over London. Their relentless building has gone largely unopposed, even when it has demolished rich portions of the city's heritage. But for the past few weeks all of London has been in an uproar over the scheduled destruction of two of the city's recently discovered archaeological treasures: the ruins of a Roman bath complex that dates back 2,000 years and the underground remains of the Rose, the Elizabethan theater where...
...Everybody gets everything handed to them. The rich get it handed -- they inherit it. I don't mean just inheritance of money. I mean what people take for granted among the middle and upper classes, which is nepotism, the old-boy network. That's shared bounty of class...
Auchincloss tosses off small but fascinating insights into the life-styles of the rich and infamous. Grace Wilson Vanderbilt, the longtime doyenne of Manhattan society, had elaborate dinners for 40 guests served at near Burger King pace: eight courses in an hour. Despite their snobbishness and excess, Auchincloss notes, the Vanderbilts did live up to a code. They were true to their own, and, as Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney indicated during the 1930s custody case involving her niece Gloria, they knew the difference between a lady and a tramp -- which is that the lady must conceal the tramp inside...
...accused them of opposing new airport construction because the additional gates would bring new competition. "Obviously, we've got fewer players in the airline industry. That's what makes everybody concerned about the future," says Skinner. "I don't want to go back to the time when only the rich could travel by air." If airline prices keep heading north, however, growing numbers of the nonrich may find themselves grounded...
Golf today is not the same game that First Putter Dwight Eisenhower played in the 1950s. Back then, says David Ferm, publisher of Golf Digest, "it was perceived as a game for fat, rich, old white guys." Today 40% of the 2 million newcomers are women, and club pros see an increasing number of African Americans and Hispanics concentrating on 10-ft. putts. Golf is also appealing to a younger crowd. And it shows. Myrtle Beach, S.C., for example, has evolved from a secluded, two-course resort town into a family golfing Mecca with 49 public and ten private links...