Word: wealth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Most journalists and soccer pundits, perhaps preoccupied with tiny oil-rich Kuwait's wealth, had ignored its quiet progress in soccer. Coached by the well-regarded Brazilian Carlos Alberto Parreira, the players were briefly sequestered in the Sahara-like climate of Valladolid in north-central Spain but worked out twice daily (and prayed to Allah the requisite five times daily). They broke the monotony by appearing for carefully rehearsed "photo opportunities," dancing around their camel mascot, which sports a FIFA identity card and a team jacket...
Time and mores have endangered the breed, but as Birmingham points out, that is no reason for celebration. These rich women, with their whims of iron and their vast influence, were not simply figureheads presiding over doomed estates. With few exceptions they used their wealth generously; hardly a major museum or opera house could survive today without their contributions and stewardship. The IRS has taken many of the Grandes away, but the Dames persist...
...average sensual man' has been given the power of speech, like Balaam's ass." That is not an inconsiderable gift, but Mailer will not be content with it. To him, "one has to take the English language back to Marlowe and Shakespeare before encountering a wealth of imagery equal in intensity...
...richer and richer and lived happily, happily, happily, happily." Only the tin-eared could miss the irony of that description. Cheever's people are imprisoned, often comically, by their station wagons and swimming pools and leafy estates. The constant issue in his fiction is not the disposition of wealth but the quotidian skirmish with spiritual poverty...
...true fan, interested more in the relic than the souvenir a walk down Common wealth Avenue is in order Hiding among the apartments is Fenway Cards, the only baseball memorabilia shop in Boston and perhaps the best baseball museum this side of Cooperstown...