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...bargained for a very run-down piece of land on which we spent $800 to build a two-room cottage without the amenities of plumbing or electricity on a rural unpaved road. Conditions eventually improved -- the road was paved and we did get electricity and running water, but no bath facility for 16 years...
Lerner lived flamboyantly, buying an eight-bath Manhattan town house, vacationing in a rented villa on the Riviera, moving to London in his final years, partygoing everywhere. He wed eight times, to women ranging from actresses in his shows to a Newsweek reporter who interviewed him, fathered three daughters and a son. His divorces were sometimes messy, and he blamed the settlements for his financial problems: at his death, the Internal Revenue Service was seeking $1.4 million in back taxes and penalties...
Richard Bloch, co-founder of H&R Block, Inc., which will prepare one of every ten 1985 U.S. tax returns, on how it feels to survive an IRS audit without owing money: "It's like taking a bath. You feel good. You feel clean. You've got another year behind...
...Marcos' ostentatious ways. No fewer than 15 limousines, five standard Mercedes-Benz cars, a BMW, a Datsun and a Nissan still sit in the mansion's garage, as does the plush personal bus that Imelda used for political outings. Its appointments include 14 armchairs, two beds, a kitchen and bath. Parked nearby is the hospital-on-wheels that accompanied Marcos on his campaign stops earlier this year, its dialysis machine and operating table pointed reminders of the former President's frail health...
...California, J-Paul Dumont knocked down the walls between his grown children's bedrooms in his Palo Alto home to set up a deluxe sweatshop complete with mirrored walls, sophisticated weight-lifting devices and a chrome rack that contains rows of dumb-bells. A whirlpool tub is in the bath next door. The $100,000 price tag also bought style: the entire suite is done in art deco. Working out, says Dumont, 55, an investment banker, "is a lot better at home...