Word: riche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...regular contributor of short stories to The New Yorker; then marriage and three children -- Susan, Ben, Federico -- and the move to the exurbs north of New York City; increasing renown, novels, prizes, alcoholism, depression, extramarital affairs; finally, the kicking of alcohol and the redemption of finding himself rich and famous...
...only a small part, says Rogers, of the "transformation of the strike force into a powerful economic force." The real punch, he points out, will come from boycotts and threats to withdraw union funds from banks; only such actions will turn executives against IP. "I'd much rather see rich businessmen fight it out in the boardroom," Rogers says. "You can't embarrass them. You have to make them deal with real economic or political pressure." The question is whether the pressure will build fast enough to budge IP before the strikers lose hope...
...Defarge. She is out to avenge all of the women in his life -- "goddesses and doormats," in Picasso's nasty phrase -- except his late widow Jacqueline Roque, whom she denounces. Her biography becomes an interminable pecking session, to the point where she even finds fault with Picasso for becoming rich. "It took a lot of money to keep Picasso in bohemia," sneers the author, who in 1986 capped her own social ascent in Reaganland by wearing an $18,000 gown at her heavily publicized wedding to Texas Oil Heir Michael Huffington...
...good Lord must love the nouveaux riches, because he made so many of them. He also seems to have provided a surfeit of writers to turn their freshly gilded lives into trashy novels. Among recent scribes who specialize in pressing readers' noses against the glass that separates them from the best of everything is Dominick Dunne (The Two Mrs. Grenvilles). His latest is sodden with the sort of unimaginative stock characters that have tumbled out of all the rich-and-famous pseudo fiction of the 1980s. The setting is Manhattan's Upper East Side, the pricey arena where old-moneyed...
Here's how it goes. Two sets of twins -- rich girls Rose and Sadie Shelton and poor girls Rose and Sadie Ratliff -- are born in the same hospital, then mixed in their cradles. One pair of mismatched twins is raised in Manhattan, where they eventually run the giant Moramax corporation. The other pair grows up in Jupiter Hollow, an Appalachian town whose furniture factory Moramax owns and plans to sell, the better to strip-mine the region. The two Roses (both played by Tomlin) are country girls at heart; they love down-home honesty, rubes named Roone...