Word: blum
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Everyone wants Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky," said Paul Blum, owner of Abracadabra in Manhattan's West Village, "but there's no mask for Lewinsky...
...Blum, whose 12 year-old store is now widely considered one of the best costume shops in the country, said customers have even been asking for cigar costumes...
...Barrel, and Donata Maggipinto, director of food and entertainment for Williams-Sonoma, say the brides being listed on their registries are younger. Carolyn Campbell, owner of Los Angeles' Wedding Library, which serves thousands of brides, says their average age in 1990 was 27; today it's 24. Notes Marci Blum, a New York wedding consultant: "I look around the room and think, 'You should be in high chairs...
...sweetheart deal had its roots in a June 1996 fund raiser at the palatial San Francisco home of Senator Dianne Feinstein and her financier husband Richard Blum. The $25,000-a-couple dinner has already gained notoriety because of its guest list, a power lineup including President Clinton, top party and Administration officials, even Asian-American fund raiser John Huang. Given all those luminaries, hardly anyone noticed the presence of Judith Vasquez, a thirtysomething Filipina developer, who pledged $100,000 for a chance to be photographed with the President. As a foreigner, she couldn't legally contribute to his party...
Thomann, then 29, landed in San Francisco a couple of weeks later as the D.N.C.'s northern California finance director. His first job was to collect the outstanding money committed at the Blum-Feinstein dinner--including the Vasquez contribution. Before long, Thomann got a phone call from Richard Sullivan, the party's finance director in Washington. Thomann said Sullivan informed him of a "change in direction" for the Vasquez pledge. Sullivan wanted the money routed to Carey's campaign, as long as Thomann made sure it was legal, according to Thomann's depositions. He was told by Sullivan that someone...