But the ending of our tale has been adjusted: Money prevails and Scrooge dies miserable and rich, but not before buying off his ghosts and fashioning them into a museum exhibit.
Traffic jams make life miserable for the rich, as well as for low- and middle-income families.
And here she was, rich and miserable".
Directed by Marta Mondelli 1 hour 15 minutes; not rated A baffling journey to a pointless destination, "The Contenders" offers a suffocating wallow in the lives of the rich and miserable.
And that, in turn, has produced policies that, unless I badly misjudge the demographics, most readers of The New York Times Book Review don't care for: unjustified tax breaks for the rich, a miserable war in Iraq, unbelievable indifference to civil liberties (Secret prison camps? Torture?? America???), among other treats.
The billboards include messages such as: "London is miserable unless you're rich," and, "I can't afford to stay in the city I was born in".
He rationalized that "If I stayed at Apple I would have probably ended up the richest man in the cemetery"; and "If I just wanted the money, I could have been rich and miserable".
Consider the loud disagreements about the recent science/ speculative fiction movie, Elysium, in which Matt Damon's character, stuck on a future earth with the miserable masses while the rich live in an orbiting space wheel above our trashed planet, eventually helps everyone receive the health care they'd been denied.
Writing in the middle of the 19th century, Karl Marx predicted that the gulf between the newly rich and the miserable urban poor, made much worse by the Industrial Revolution, would continue to widen indefinitely.
The Normans are the rich and the miserable Saxons now reduced to the state of factory hands in grimy cities the poor.
