Word: riche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Only a year ago, hardly anyone outside the close-knit world of commodities trading would have recognized the name Marc Rich. Obsessively reclusive, Rich kept his billion-dollar business behind frosted glass. But now Rich is on his way to becoming infamous as a white-collar fugitive. After 18 months of investigation, a grand jury in Manhattan last week accused Rich and some of his associates of evading at least $48 million in U.S. income taxes. U.S. attorneys called the case "the largest tax-evasion scheme ever prosecuted...
Government investigators filed 51 separate criminal charges against Rich and his partner, Pincus ("Pinky") Green, both 49. The men face long prison terms if found guilty on all counts. But the two may first have to be extradited in order to stand trial. Rich and Green fled New York City about three months ago and are believed to be living near the Alpine town of Zug, Switzerland, the headquarters of their commodities firm, Marc Rich...
...think our proctors encouraged it at first because it promoted residence team man ship," Susan J. Rich '87, another Holworthy resident, said, adding "that it was a shame to break a hundred-year-old tradition...
Then there is sex. Early in the novel, Eddie apologizes for his tendency to fantasize about store mannequins: "I'm not fucking much." Yet he engages in varying forms of sexual activity with a startling array of partners--with rich women, poor women, ugly men, handsome men, old and young, with bums he meets in parking lots at night, with everyone, in fact, but his ex-wife Elena, the only one of these who excites, pains, and motivates him. When Elena, a failed and bitchy fashion model who cares for nothing but lovers and negligee, finally shows...
...Eddie the child, the streets of New York are a playground. There he cavorts with the lowest of the low, enjoying great sexual satisfaction with bums and bagwomen, while at once mourning the loss of his ideal love, his "Angel Fucker," Elena, whom the rich have spirited away. Thus Limonov hopes to demonstrate the vacuity of American culture; all emigres, not only Eddie, have betrayed their own natures by giving up a homeland where there is at least a little love (though we are never told why this is so) for a place which offers no love, and money...