Word: count
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...suppose it's true." After work or shopping, the teenage countesses and bejeaned barons gather at Club A, a jewel-box disco, to dance, gossip and compare invitations. "It's all a game to them," says a Columbia University business student, Jeffrey von der Schulenburg, 27, a German count by birth, "really just playacting, and in the end, they're Europeans again...
Once settled, foreigners are elated by American entertaining styles. Italian-Brazilian Count Rudi Crespi, a Manhattan-based publicist for a number of Italian fashion houses, finds his evenings less predictable. "In Italy the host will call you three days in advance and tell you who your companions are going to be. In New York you run into interesting people, pick up ideas and get into lively discussions. If I wanted a programmed evening, I'd stay home and watch...
...other all but universally shared experience is finding a job. That can be a profoundly humbling experience, especially for highly educated Asians. Degrees and credentials that took years to attain suddenly count for little or nothing. Jei Hak Suh, 43, gave up a banking career in South Korea to move with his wife and two young children to Los Angeles in 1981; with his English far from polished, he realized that the banking jobs available to him would not pay enough to support his family. He is now a construction worker...
Kids sometimes hold their noses and try to count to 100. But this was the big time. "We were holding our breath until we sold the first million," confesses David Lee Roth, who released his first solo album, Crazy from the Heat, in the dead of last winter. Record buyers warmed to California Girls, one of the album's singles; another, Just a Gigolo/ I Ain't Got Nobody, is still on the charts. Roth's rock roll has music gossips asking whether the flamboyant singer will ever return to Van Halen, the group where he started. His response...
FOOTNOTE: *The latest count gives ABC a 5 rating, NBC 4.5 and CBS 3.2. That translates into 4.2 million sets tuned to GMA, 3.8 million to Today and 2.7 million to Morning