Word: riche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hollywood that a new star had been made. But it was news throughout the U.S. that the best tap dancer in the world, Fred Astaire, had a new dancing partner. She danced out with him before the nation in Columbia's new musical, You'll Never Get Rich, and she was the best partner he had ever...
...incandescent Rita Hayworth dance before the movies drafted her knew she was a dancer to partner even the great Astaire. But few of them would have expected her to keep up with his wry, off-beat brand of comedy. She fills both assignments in You'll Never Get Rich. Offscreen she is easygoing and sometimes inert. Before the camera she is bright as a dollar...
Clearly something is wrong. Wilson deliberately ignores the so-called "white collar crimes," claiming in the introduction to Crime and Public Policy that "common predatory street crime is of greater importance to the general public." Having stacked the deck to exclude the rich--whose criminality is statistically several orders of magnitude higher than that of street criminals--Wilson calls for a holy war against criminals, who by his definition must be poor...
...went from bootlegging to political eminence in just one generation. More broadly, we find that one of the surest ways to escape getting convicted of a crime is to achieve middle-class standing. Consider the opening paragraph of this New York Times article, quoted in Jeffrey Reiman's The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison...
Christopher Rich...