Word: unrich
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Barlett and Steele, who are not ideologues of any discernible persuasion, leave the distinct impression that government has begun to function like a gang. According to political science, "the state" is supposed to be a neutral place where various interest groups -- like, say, the rich and the unrich -- meet to work things out, far from the noisy marketplace. Instead, government seems to have become a place where legislators meet lobbyists, to the happy advantage of each. As for being above the marketplace -- even laws are for sale here. When the rich have exhausted all the other evasive tactics, they...
Andie Walsh has it tough. At her mid-'80s high school, the setting for Pretty in Pink, the rich kids cut the unrich with cold shoulders and easy slurs. It is the Sharks vs. the Jets all over again; this time the weapons are not switchblades but attitude. Andie (Molly Ringwald) is a "poor girl" pursued by a freaky-geeky boy pal, whose devotion drives her bats, and in love with a rich boy who may not be strong enough to declare his finer feelings and risk his friends' derision. So who comforts Andie? Why, her dear dilapidated...
...that the eccentric bon vivant, keeping up with the times, now lives aboard a Concorde. "Of the newly rich people I have known, few seemed really fulfilled," says Demarest. "Others compete for what they have and are, but the rich have already won. Those of us who are distinctly unrich can console ourselves with Ruskin's words: 'There is no wealth but life...
...these satisfactions an occasional confirmation of the law's venality, a whiff of burning plastic as Southern California chars at the edges, and Archer's own pleasurable disillusions, and-for the reader who is unyoung, unrich and undelighted-you have a fantasy very nearly worth 19 reruns. Archer's middle-aged tiredness is the necessary anchor in reality; the reader is not Billy Batson any more, and he will not believe Captain Marvel...
...Eliot House; Francis Fenghstang Chen '50 of New York City and Eliot House; Giles Constable '50 of 23 Chaigie Street, Cambridge; Samuel Isaac Epstein '50 of Dorchester and Lowell House; Thomas Fulton '51 of Long Island City, New York; Frank Slagle Ham '50 of Washington and Lowell House; and Unrich Ernst Kruse '50 of Milwaukee, Wisconsin and Lowell House...
| 1 |