Word: well-to-do
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...anecdote," says Ouisa (Stockard Channing) toward the end of Six Degrees of Separation. Neither did John Guare, adapting his hit play for the movies. But his inspiration was in fact an anecdote -- a true tale about a young black man (here called Paul) who invaded the lives of some well-to-do New Yorkers by passing himself off as a college friend of their children. And though Guare has cleverly reshaped the material for the screen, where it has been directed with elan by Fred Schepisi, the piece is still not much more than a bit of urban folklore...
...wife in college 19 years ago, married her four years later and proudly says he has been faithful to her. Alison Stern, the very picture of the cheerful, wholesome middle-American housewife, raises their three daughters, ages 9 months to 10 years, at the family home in a conservative well-to-do Long Island suburb. "I look around at the creeps and mutants out there," the fretful dad writes in Private Parts, "and the idea that these idiots are going to invade my life and marry my daughters at some point really frightens me." Limbaugh has been married twice...
...said he paid for the phone calls himself,"said Police Chief Paul E. Johnson. "He comes froma well-to-do family...
...distinctively Gallic version of the standard salutation, "What's up?" Szup? is what American ears & hear, though in Paris it sounds more like an appetizer course: "Soup?" The genre has spawned one break-out hit, Auteuil Neuilly Passy, in which a trio called Les Inconnus (the Unknowns) ridicules the well-to-do who live in those three ritzy parts of Paris. MC Solaar, who was born in Chad, easily concedes that "Parisian rap is pretty much a U.S. branch office. We copy everything, don't we? We don't even take a step back...
...Washington is overwhelmingly Black, and all those well-dressed and powerful professionals running our country--the people you see on television and read about in the paper--are white. They don't live in D.C., of course. They live in neighboring Arlington, Va., Bethesda, Md. and the infinite well-to-do entirely white suburbs only a Metro ride away...