Word: bartholdi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Shame on America. How she has lost her manners in the last century! It's a good thing the French gave us the Statue of Liberty in 1886. Today, we might have melted down the Bartholdi-Eiffel masterpiece and tossed her into a scrap metals heap 10 days after dedication. That's how Americans treat gifts...
...started to wear shirts and ties and pinstripe suits, because he figured they were looking to become corporate creeps, as he would call them." The money saved on wardrobe went to subsidize Gaines' various follies, including restaurant feasts, his collection of small-scale Statues of Liberty (including one of Bartholdi's original models, which he bought for $104,000) and his annual junkets abroad for Mad's editors and contributors...