Word: richness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Indians say they cannot afford trap nets. They would require an initial investment of $20,000, about 20 times the cost of using a gill net. In the Chippewa view, the dispute is plain enough: it is between poor Indians who fish for a living and rich whites who fish for fun. Says Chippewa Elmer LeBlanc: "Our forefathers gave us the right to hunt and fish. I want it to be a livelihood...
...best future asset is the forthcoming liaison with France's rich dowager, Renault, which will eventually own 22.5% of American Motors stock. Renault's mini Le Car is selling well in AMC showrooms and drawing customers to some of American Motors' own models. Automakers will survive in the future, says Meyers, if they sharply focus their markets and hook up with international partners. Those that do not, he adds, "will be wiped out as thoroughly as Custer's 7th Cavalry...
...Frank Rich...
...only two decades ago, but social realities and the American literary scene have changed so thoroughly that Millicent Bell's thoughtful biography has become a work of archaeology. Marquand was a master of the literary flashback, now a wholly owned subsidiary of cinema, and a satirist of the rich, who have been depleted by taxes and supplanted by rock promoters and multinational executives...
...makes inexperienced love to a prized "bird" (Leslie Ash), the film persuasively demonstrates that even the revolutions of the '60s did not overturn the crucial rituals of postadolescence. In those moments, Quadrophenia offers not only historical drama but also the kind of human drama that is timeless. -Frank Rich...