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...course, there are holdouts, purists who scorn the brash intruders. Complains veteran Vermont Skier Mary Simons: "Snowboarding is not about grace and style but about raging hormones. It is adolescent boys with their newest toy." Ralph DesLauriers, owner of the Bolton Valley Resort in Vermont, compares the gripers with "people in the horse-drawn carriages reacting to cars driving by." At least skiers can be grateful that snowboarders cannot gun their engines and spew exhaust...
...arrests also seemed to contradict the notion that charges of malfeasance on Wall Street were aimed mostly at brash young M.B.A.s with an eye for a quick buck. Wigton had been a member of the Kidder, Peabody firm for more than 30 years. He was elected last year to the board of governors of the National Association of Securities Dealers, the respected regulating arm of the over-the-counter stock industry. Freeman was a 22-year Goldman, Sachs veteran. Only the youthful Tabor could be described in fast-track terms. A Rhodes scholar, he held down...
...Turner has used his share of Perils-of-Pauline financial maneuvers in building Turner Broadcasting System, the parent firm of Cable News Network and superstation WTBS. But the brash entrepreneur put a time bomb under his company when he bought MGM/UA Entertainment last March for $1.5 billion. As part of the purchase agreement for the film and TV production firm, Turner issued 53.3 million shares of preferred stock in Turner Broadcasting. A provision of the deal was that starting this June, he would have to pay dividends on those shares in the form of common stock in his firm...
...high seas. The result, says Conner, is "like a fuel dragster vs. a turbocharged Porsche. While the dragster might have more speed in a straight line, he doesn't want to go 24 hours at Le Mans." The series was also a classic duel of wily veteran vs. brash youth. Conner has some 10,000 hours on 12-meter boats. New Zealand Skipper Chris Dickson, 25, although a sailor since childhood, has been at their helms less than a year...
...Angeles Architect William Pereira. When the time came, in 1981, to expand LACMA, the proper response to them would have been the bulldozer. But that would have meant closing the museum. So its trustees engaged Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates, a New York firm with a name for brash, virile signature buildings heavily layered with industrial metaphor, to design a new wing. The goals were to house LACMA's modern and contemporary collections and shows, separating them from its other collections; to provide 50,000 sq. ft. of new exhibition space, more storage room and new offices; and, if possible...