Word: high-class
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...this bastion of high-class learning, living and tax evasion simply uses the color--not the color and the laundry soap--to identify itself on the playing field...
Meanwhile, Sagan has remained imperturbably on course, charting the manners of France's Beautiful People who inhabit the milieu of high fashion, advertising and show business. Those of her novels that appeared in the U.S., such as A Certain Smile, Aimez-Vous Brahms? and The Unmade Bed, came across as high-class pop fiction à la française with predictable complements of cuckolds, betrayed mistresses and golden-eyed lovers...
ASIDE FROM NOBEL PRIZES and Commencement Day pontifications, minority issues are the surest way to draw national attention to Harvard. Newspapers across the country apparently consider the University's successes and failures with non-white students to be representative of the state of race relations throughout high-class higher education...
...Public Subscriber Network, as it would be known, would charge customers an average $10 to $13 a month, beginning in 1983. It would offer up to three hours each night of high-class entertainment, such as plays and operas, which would be broadcast free over the PBS system, probably many months later. Subscribers would be served, and so would the arts groups, which would receive a share of the profits. But the key point of the plan is that a bigger share would go to PBS and its stations, which would then have an assured income safe from the whims...
...demons of the California Dream. Instead, Schrader concocted a laughable montage of silly sequences, an absurd plot and bad lines that reaches climax in a bizarre series of fade-outs that symbolize pauses between pelvic thrusts. Gere, as Julian Kaye, makes it clear that he does only straight, high-class women. He looks more embarrassed than worried when he gets framed for a handcuffs-cum-sex murder that he didn't commit in this kinky-trick movie that John Travolta should have made. Schrader filled his script with coincidences and absurd plot devices that are so ridiculous, so inconceivable they...