Word: plutocrat
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...models of polish and elegance: many of its paperbacks have dust jackets. The house was founded seven years ago by Real Estate Millionaire William Turnbull, 59, and Bookstore Owner and former Salesman Jack Shoemaker, 39. Turnbull, whose bulk and authority give him the aura of an editorial-cartoon plutocrat, chose the name because "if you know which way north is you can't get lost." The firm moved into a converted church and rectory in Berkeley in January 1980. The quarters were chosen, says the founder, "because we knew we would have to pray...
...Super 8 stock and exhibiting the results in punk nightclubs. Vortex, made in 16 mm on an $80,000 budget, is their first shot at the relatively big time. Its plot is standard sleuthing in the corridors of power. A Congressman has been killed on orders from a reclusive plutocrat (Bill Rice). Private Eye Angel Powers (Lydia Lunch) finds the source of the trouble in Anthony Demmer (James Russo), a tirading troglodyte in a three-piece suit who has made a pathetic slave of the billionaire. While muttering such maxims as "Truth is a dead man's secret," Angel...
...often said to his wife when he sat down to dine/ 'I don't care where the water goes if it doesn't get into the wine.' " When he spoke disdainfully about preferring "the Jew who is revolutionary to the Jew who is a plutocrat," the result was not so felicitous. Dale never averts her eye from these occasions, but she manages to find a rationale for every lapse, from deliberate naivete to the production of potboilers. Alas, there is something to be said for Ezra Pound's annoyance with Chesterton for "never taking...
...Jobs is deft at dealing with his peers and elders in commerce, a comforting combination of overnight plutocrat and shill for a new gold rush, he is positively hypnotic when he takes the computer gospel to the young. Jobs is youthful enough to fit right in and both bright enough and rich enough to get respect. Certainly, he does not live like a superstar. His pleasant home in Los Gates is nothing that would interest Architectural Digest: freshly laundered shirts lie on the floor of an unfurnished second bedroom, a love letter is magneted to the kitchen fridge, the master...
...tales play with the theme of moral revenge taken on corrupt humankind by nature, alien forces or the Undead. But the treatment manages to be both perfunctory and languid; the jolts can be predicted by any ten-year-old with a stop watch. Only the story in which Evil Plutocrat E.G. Marshall is eaten alive by cockroaches mixes giggles and grue in the right measure...