Word: superrich
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Domain of Arnheim, Magritte's image of a vast, cold Alpine wall seen through the broken window of a bourgeois living room, with shards of glass on the floor that still carry bits of the sublime view on them, is the title of Poe's 1846 tale about a superrich American landscape connoisseur who creates a Xanadu for himself. "Let us imagine," says Poe's hero, "a landscape whose combined vastness and definitiveness -- whose united beauty, magnificence and strangeness shall convey the idea of care, or culture . . . on the part of beings superior, yet akin to humanity...
...plutocrats. As lottomania has swept the nation, one result is an entirely new social stratum of millionaires, over 3,000 in all, and more are added each month. With some prizes soaring past nine digits (the largest: $118 million in California last April), a few recipients even approach being superrich. But America's pot-of-gold winners are to a surprising degree the opposite of the Me-first cohort of nouveau speculators who bedecked the greedy...
...left, David Obey of Wisconsin and other liberals cobbled together an alternative budget proposal, hoping to get a separate vote. "The President's negotiating team insisted on protecting the superrich," said Obey. "This agreement simply continues the march that was started in 1981 when budget and tax changes tripled America's deficits and dropped the word fairness from the vocabulary of the Federal Government." The Obey faction proposed sharper cuts in defense spending and higher income tax rates for those with incomes over...
...Justest Dessert. While the fashionable may have pigged out on dacquoise, white chocolate and tiramisu, what turned on many Americans was a popular perennial: ice cream. But spare the vanilla, counterman. From superrich, chocolaty DoveBars to satiny Italian gelato, the nation's taste buds went for premium quality and perky flavors...
...early 1980s, Asher Edelman seemed to have a magic touch. Bright, brash and hyperconfident, he reaped more than $40 million in instant profits for himself and his investors by raiding and liquidating two dreary companies: Management Assistance, a computer maker, and Canal-Randolph, a real estate firm. Suddenly superrich, the Bard College graduate, reared on Long Island, N.Y., bought fashionable residences from Sun Valley to Switzerland, a 100-ft. yacht, a personal jet and a modern-art collection today rumored to be worth $100 million...