Word: riche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Kemp presided over a two-hour discussion. Letter writing and rank-and-file pressure on Congress, the group decided, would be the principal tactics. The rich (1982 receipts: $4 million) National Conservative Political Action Committee will send letters to every Congressman, reminding each of the organization's campaign-funding clout. Viguerie will use the mail to deputize as lobbyists 4,500 conservatives outside Washington. The group agreed, however, to walk that fine, perhaps imaginary line between disagreement with and disloyalty to the President. Insists Supply-Side Apostle Roberts: "There were more Reaganites in that room than there...
...venality of human nature. Woven throughout is the ever changing persona of the Confidence Man, who assumes various guises on board a ship of fools called, with typical Melvillean irony, the Fidèle, as it journeys down the Mississippi one April Fools' Day. It is a rich, difficult and underrated work, but not one well disposed to operatic adaptation...
Your proctor has already organized a field trip to Steve's Ice Cream in Somerville (191 elm St.). Go sign up; it's worth the walk forthis super-rich, semi-soft delicacy. Emack and Bolio's, relocated on MAss. Ave., prepares an equally competent dish but doesn't mix in the Heath Bars. Cahaly's (47 Mt. Auburn St.) sports a newly enlarged ice-cream disco bar. Baskin and Robbins (541 Mass. Ave.) never adjusted to the new generation competition of homemade ice cream flavors, though the famous 31 still beat the hell out of Brigham's (1420 Mass...
...partner on the night shift at the city morgue. Bill Blazejowski (Michael Keaton), is trouble: a pin wheel of sputtering ideas, a motormouth that roared. Out of desperation and a growing fondness for the girl next door (Shelley Long), Chuck devises a scheme that will make them all rich: he and Billy will act as "business agents" for a flock of unchaperoned prostitutes, and his office will become the best little morgue-house in New York...
...political procurers are not in sight. Instead, Vargas Llosa's Lima is a bright tangle of characters: Indians from the mountains and the edge of the Amazon busy filling up new slums; a middle class trying to keep its balance in an unstable economy; and the rich preserving the good life and marrying off their daughters in style. There are shocks and bizarre surprises, but the prevailing atmosphere of the novel is a melancholy gaiety...