Word: bernstein
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...testimony before a House Asian and Pacific affairs subcommittee, two New York City real estate executives told how they helped Marcos and his wife Imelda secretly acquire New York real estate. Faced with prosecution for contempt of Congress if they kept silent, Joseph and Ralph Bernstein described the complicated dealings of the Philippine first family, who allegedly hold three office buildings and an enclosed, multistory shopping mall in Manhattan, estimated to be worth some $350 million. Joseph Bernstein even recalled joining Mrs. Marcos on a midnight drive to a Wall Street building, where she went to gaze in admiration...
Barry Knox, a New York financial adviser, testified that he met twice with Mrs. Marcos in 1984 to discuss the status of four Manhattan properties. Knox said that Joseph Bernstein, a New York developer who has been linked in court records and press reports to supposed Marcos real estate transactions, had told him in several conversations that Mrs. Marcos owns all four properties. Bernstein, who faces contempt charges before the full House for failing to answer subcommittee questions, told TIME last week that the Marcoses "have no equity participation in any of the real estate deals we are handling...
...FELLOW STUDENTS, I write these words with a heavy heart. Just as Woodward and Bernstein were torn with agony when they had to reveal that our government was corrupt, so do I suffer...
...seriously strange and bizarre theater: from Paul Warner's Rocky Horroresque stylistics to Kevin Jennings' psychedelically lit social messages, the Mainstage and the HRDC have self-marginalized themselves with a Spartacist zeal. In a recent effort to make the Mainstage more accessible as well as more profitable, Shakespeare and Bernstein have replaced Aeschylus in drag...
...gushing admiration, persuaded him to keep talking. Welles recounted his weird childhood. His father was a failed inventor who became an alcoholic, his mother a failed pianist who died when he was nine, and his older brother a schizophrenic. At 18 months, Orson was "discovered" by Dr. Maurice Bernstein, a family friend, who pronounced the tot a genius and supplied him with a violin, paints and a puppet theater, while ardently courting the genius' mother...