Word: aspens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...well for themselves, thank you, even as creditors take a beating. William Farley put his $3 billion empire, which includes Fruit-of-the-Loom apparel, into Chapter 11 last year. But analysts say Farley could keep as much as $100 million of his personal fortune and homes in Chicago, Aspen and Maine. In Washington, real estate developer Dominic Antonelli Jr. has reached agreement with his creditors in a $700 million Chapter 11 case that would allow him to keep, among other things, $1.9 million in cash along with stock, cars and possessions valued at $2.1 million. If the deal goes...
...house itself is an American mini-castle--half Aspen lodge, half Newport mansion. The solar heating in this house is a mere incidental, just one of Will's many idiosynchrosies. When Will had the house built a year ago, price was not an issue. Down stairs, there is one of those indoor swimming pools where you swim in one place and the water gets pumped by you. Sort of like walking on a treadmill, but more trendy...
...ASPEN (PBS, Dec. 30, 9 p.m. on most stations). Frederick Wiseman, the no- frills documentarian who has explored everything from hospitals to animal laboratories, gets a rare dose of fresh air in this 2 1/2-hr. look at the trendy Colorado retreat...
Tahoe and Aspen are overcrowded; Santa Fe is commercialized; when a mogul or a movie star wants to enjoy untainted American spaces, what's left? Try Montana. For members of the names-in-bold-print set, from Ted Turner to Tom Brokaw, from Dennis Quaid and Meg Ryan to Mel Gibson and Kiefer Sutherland, from Emilio Estevez and Charlie Sheen to Oakland A's owner Walter Haas, the Big Sky State has become the hottest of hideaways. Says Russ Francis, a former San Francisco 49er football star who recently joined the rush to Big Sky Country: "This is the last...
...MAGAZINE and its parent company, Times Mirror, invited Sununu to ski and speak at its three-day gathering in Aspen, Colo., in December 1990. As usual, Sununu classified this trip as official business and flew out on an Air Force jet. Ski magazine officials, however, say they paid for lodging, meals and ski passes for Sununu and his wife. As reported by TIME last week, Sununu's office billed a ski-industry lobbying group, the American Ski Federation, $802 for Nancy Sununu's airfare. A Sununu aide later explained that the payments by Ski and the Ski Federation were "billing...