Word: riche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nobody expects memoirs by the rich or infamous to be gracefully written; expectations center on how much is dished up, not on the table manners involved. But the rules change markedly when it comes to autobiographies by the lesser known. Everybody, after all, has a life story, and the reluctance to spend money and time on a relative stranger's is considerable. This, the wary reader is likely to mutter, had better be good...
...Barry Bingham Jr., as well as her versions of family and office politics, is too one-sided to be wholly plausible. Bingham's relations with her mother ring truer. At one point the matriarch is quoted as asking why her family could not be happy, since they were all rich, intelligent and beautiful. It is a fair question whose incomplete answer can be found in this resentful and blinkered book...
...rich get richer," Taylor said. "The fact that Harvard is 15-0 and we're 4-7, that they're first in the ECAC and we're eighth, is important to a recruit...
...Paul Howley 15 2 1 3 4 16 Kevin Sneddon 13 0 3 3 5 10 Brian Popiel 6 0 2 2 0 0 Scott Farden 4 0 2 2 1 2 Timmy Burke 2 1 0 1 1 2 Brian McCormack 12 0 1 1 5 10 Rich DeFreitas 1 0 1 1 0 0 Greg Hess 0 0 0 0 0 0 Jimmy Coady 0 0 0 0 0 0 Totals 15 90 154 244 127285 Opponents...
...signs describe this rich, evanescent display; often the tourists don't know what they're looking at. A tour group of Soviet emigres glanced briefly at an intact medieval basement and walked away, thinking they had come across some urban renewal project. Francesco Nicosia, the feisty archaeological superintendent for Tuscany who battled for permission to dig up the piazza, hopes to mount a midyear show to explain the history unearthed: a medieval city of giant towers sitting atop an important Roman city dating from the 1st century; Greek objects imported as early as the 8th century B.C.; even obsidian tools...