Word: well-to-do
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With its handheld cameras, quick cuts, rapid banter and vibrant Miami colors, this relationship sitcom pops onto the screen like a bag of Skittles dumped on a marble counter. Unfortunately, its intertwined stories of well-to-do, young, hot bodies aren't half as interesting to listen to as to look at. David Frankel (Miami Rhapsody) has put sharp dialogue in the mouths of shallow characters, making for a PG Sex and the City without its edge or likability. Frankel's writing and directorial creativity argue for giving the series a chance. But based on the first few dates, this...
Johann Gutenberg was born of well-to-do parents in the Archbishopric of Mainz, Germany. Details of his life, early as well as late, are sketchy, but he apparently trained as a goldsmith and/or gem cutter and then became a partner in a printing shop in Strasbourg...
...fact that the family was permitted to wander freely throughout the house, after the police arrived, on the night JonBenet was killed. The overwhelming belief that the parents had something to do with their daughter's demise led to accusations that Boulder County D.A. Alexander Hunter is shielding the well-to-do ? and well-connected ? Ramseys from the brunt of the investigation. The grand jury, however, could find nothing with which to nail them ? or anyone else. Now it looks as if JonBenet's death, for nearly three years the subject of national interest ? and obsession ? will become a matter...
...midst of all this, the ones who live among ghosts conduct their own private investigations. "My friends think I'm crazy," says a well-to-do Cambodian who returned here from Canada. "People tell me, 'Why do you want to look at these things? It's easier to forget.' But I want to understand why it happened"--he means the self-extermination of his country--"so it will never happen again." When Pol Pot died, Keo Lundi, from the Tuol Sleng center, says, "I spent my own money to go to his province, to talk to his brother and sister...
...those elections, most Parisians demonstrated through their vote a concern for the poor, a desire for equality and, by implication, an indifference toward what money can buy. But through their lifestyles, Parisians make a much different statement: image, both in the appearance of being well-to-do and in matters of personal style, is of the utmost importance...