To deduce this, she exposed people to money in various forms — essays about wealth, word scrambles containing phrases like "a high-paying salary," even Monopoly bills.
"I think we have a wealth of words inside us throughout our lives and when you have dementia, they are still inside you", she says.
Nick Laird, the poet, who comes from Northern Ireland, cites that region's wealth of words for drunkenness — stocious, half-tore, half-cut, blootered, lashed — while Blake Morrison, who grew up in Yorkshire, notes the variety of words his landsmen once had for "fool": bizzumhead, dunderknowle, hauvey-gauvey, ragabash, and fustilugs.
Among the wealth of words and images created by Arthur Hopcraft, who has died aged 71, two achievements stand out: his adaptation of John Le Carré's Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (1979) into one of the most successful serials ever made by BBC television, and his masterpiece among sports books, The Football Man, People And Passions In Soccer, published in 1968.
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Share the wealth, the word or both, if you're so inclined.
In other words, wealth can't necessarily buy a better brain, but deprivation can result in a weakened one.
A MAN of much wealth and many words, Silvio Berlusconi is trying hard to lure Sicily's 4m voters to his right-wing party.
The corpse-eating pigs and baroquely obscene insults on "Deadwood," for instance, served an argument that democracy in America emerged as the by-product of ruthless men's determination to preserve their wealth — in other words, as a cost of doing business.
Thanks to corporate scandals and a long-lasting bear market, the words "wealth" and "rich" are now considered somewhat disreputable by our mass media, not to mention Washington and America's cultural elite.
