Word: riche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...didn't think he was that good a runner," Holy Cross Coach Rich Carter said later. "In fact, I didn't really believe that Harvard could run the ball on us very well...
...wrote the Blue Grass Opera a few years back, and it seems to apply to almost all of them. It's about people leaving home and heading north (How did Bobby Bare sing it? "Home folks think I'm big in Dee-troit City"), planning to get rich quick and go back and buy a filling station or a hardware store, always talking about going home for good even as the debts piled up and children came along and roots went down and finally they had to admit that Detroit was a friendly place and they had done...
...from his-and-her airplanes to a paleontological safari in Utah to baby Asian elephants. Sakowitz, its Texas rival, has presented such opulent entries as a bathtub full of diamonds, a chateau in a French wine district and a personalized offshore oil rig. This year proves to be reliably rich in the wish books...
...position is not in darkest Africa but in the steamy slums of Edwardian London. His task is to rescue the souls of their prostitute population. Unfortunately, this earnest young cleric is distracted by the pleasures of the women's generously proffered flesh, and by the importunings of his rich and lubricious patroness (a subdued Maggie Smith). The missionary is played by the Monty Python's Michael Palin, who also wrote the script. But the jokes are mild, single-minded and, too often, familiar. Palin appears less interested in being funny than in offering criticism of a society that...
...formidable defense, is the word in description and dialogue. As Axton finally ascends the Acropolis, a pilgrimage he formerly dismissed as touristy, he speaks the author's mind as well as his own: "I move past the scaffolding and walk down the steps, hearing one language after another, rich, harsh, mysterious, strong. This is what we bring to the temple, not prayer or chant or slaughtered rams. Our offering is language...