Word: white-collar
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...Plugging its "quality" (e.g., upscale) existing lineup, the network rolled out a mere 4 1/2 hours of new programming - three sitcoms and three dramas - asking advertisers instead to focus on "The West Wing" ("The most upscale show on any network!") and "Law and Order" and their jewel-encrusted white-collar audiences. The spin was, of course, that the network lineup was so solid that it needed little tinkering...
Imagine yourself as a 30-year-old single white-collar worker, living in Boston or Cambridge. You enjoyed college, but somehow this new working life of yours just isn’t as much fun as you thought it’d be. You’d like to recapture some of the magic of your undergraduate days, but you’ve already got your masters degree and don’t need any more education. You haven’t slept past 11:30 AM in six years, and the last time you just dropped...
Even when he is writing about relatively fantastic subjects, like spirit possession in sheep, Murakami's sensibility is that of the skeptical realist. His narrator is inevitably everyman, contemporary Tokyo edition - a thirtyish urban male in a low-key, white-collar job, a somewhat passive fellow who doesn't expect much out of life and takes what comes with jaded equanimity. Like the narrators of Raymond Carver's stories - Murakami is Carver's translator - they are unremarkable men, less driven by the ethic to succeed and less enmeshed in the powerful webs of family and business and community than most...
...last day in office, the man who understands the power of forgiveness better than most issued a list of more than 100 pardons. Tucked in among the names was that of Marc Rich., 65, one of the world's most wanted white-collar fugitives. In 1983, the brilliant, rapacious commodities trader, along with his partner, Pincus Green, was charged with an illegal oil-pricing scheme that amounted to what might be the biggest tax swindle in U.S. history, to the tune of almost $50 million--not to mention trading with Iran during the hostage crisis. The latter charge was later...
This is Lopez's whitest movie yet--white gowns, white-tie, white-collar, white bread. And darned if she can't play perkily yuppyish. Her Mary is smart, nice and sexy; if boys dreamed of future brides and not of instant hookers, she would star in a million fervid fantasies. The film is unlikely to win critical raves, but we'll give Lopez a pass on this one. The game gal can't win every game...