Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...House committees support CHL's decision, universal keycard access to all the upper-class houses--an enterprise that has required over four years of effort--may become a reality as early as December...
Jerry and Mary first swapped in 1982, exchanging their Upper West Side Manhattan apartment for a five-room Paris flat in the 17th arrondisement, just a short hop from L'Etoile. Not only did they get the charming, high-ceilinged apartment furnished with 18th century antiques; they also got Rene, the owner, a charming and sociable French engineer, who met them for drinks at John F. Kennedy Airport. They have kept in touch since, through notes and Christmas cards, visits to each other and at least seven stays at Rene's, including three quid pro quo exchanges. Sometimes Jerry...
...questions posed by Governor Bush in a fundamentally unsatisfying way. How should I live? I should live a life of ambition, intensity and striving. What should I love? I should love reason, excellence and achievement. Indeed, these prescriptions are not without their payoff. They illuminate the path to the Upper East Side or Westchester County with impressive accuracy...
...fashion news programs like CNN's "Style with Elsa Klensch" became the final guard of a dying industry, and Agins argues that we (you, me and her) looked up to them until our trust was broken. Haute Couture had never resembled the reality of the upper-middle and middle classes; it had been a fantasy. But eventually, the fantasy lost its grip, straying too far into the stratum of Mizrahi-style, wholly unwearable hoopla. This is how fashion died, Agins argues. It choked on its own opulence...
...this last depressing declaration floats up to the swarms of shoppers on the upper levels, Schor passes under the arch and returns outside to the real world. The score...