Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...exhibit is not the quality of the prints as artistic creations, but within the context they were created and the meaning they had for the time period. To call most of these prints "superb works of art" would be the same as placing the Marlboro Man ads in the upper regions of artistic greatness. The two, after all, were displayed in similar places. We do not proclaim a political cartoon a masterpiece; rather, it is clever, as are the majority of these prints...
...worked well for very low income families, but middle income and upper middle income were "really getting whacked pretty hard," said Stanley G. Hudson, an MIT dean and financial aid officer, who is on the advisory committee looking into...
Opening garbage bags taken from first-year dorms, libraries, upper-class houses and several administration buildings, the committee separated the trash into three categories: cardboard, paper and containers...
...author is seated on a sofa in the 12-room apartment on Manhattan's Upper East Side that he shares with Sheila, his wife of 20 years, and their son Tommy, 13. Daughter Alexandra, 18, has flown the nest for her freshman year in college. Wolfe, slender and looking at least a decade shy of his 68 years, wears at home pretty much what he has worn in public since he became a highly visible Manhattan journalist in the '60s: a trademark white suit and vest, a high-necked blue-and-white-striped shirt complemented by a creamy silk necktie...
...small favors. Next year, for example, a million families that earn around $45,000 to $90,000 can take advantage of child and college-tuition credits without triggering the alternative minimum tax, the IRS's weapon against the superrich that has lately been striking more of the upper-middle class...