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Steinberg and his partners made scant effort to hide their wealth. At restaurants they ordered $400 bottles of wine. At Steinberg's $400,000 home were parked a Maserati, a Lamborghini, a Ferrari and the inevitable Rolls-Royce. One of Steinberg's partners gave a Mercedes to a girl he barely knew...
...applied for a job in 1970. When Knapp asked what she thought of his magazine, Rense replied: "Boring and poorly edited." She was hired on the spot. With a monthly circulation of 558,000, Digest in the past year carried more than 1,400 pages of high-tone ads (Ferrari, Cartier, Courvoisier) and had revenues of $32 million. More than a third of its readers are corporate board members, and one-fifth are millionaires...
...have difficulty selling anything but their umpteenth La Bohème, Gaddes has found an audience for the new and the unusual. The current season is typical: the American premiere of Japanese Composer Minoru Miki's An Actor's Revenge, a double bill consisting of Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari's The Secret of Susanna and Frederick Delius' last opera, Fennimore and Gerda (also an American premiere), Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro and Verdi's Rigoletto, all sung in English...
...press our noses against the window glass. What unimaginable delight made the pretty lady swirl and smile as the photographer snapped her picture? What season of debauchery brought the sulky thrust to this beauty's lower lip? At what groveling serf does the fine young lord in the Ferrari scowl with such contempt? Nothing; none; at no one; these glossy apparitions are as hollow as soap bubbles. The photographer has frozen moments that never were ? yet they tease us because their reality is beyond question, while our own stored moments, caught in snapshots and thrown into a drawer...
...which went to pay for leasing the lands. The rest was dissipated through a network of corporations; part went for commissions to tax-shelter salesmen and payoffs to business associates, part into other deals, and part was used to purchase such assets as a business jet, a Ferrari and several Rolls-Royces. Investigators believe that a sizable chunk of the money may remain salted away in Swiss bank accounts. Further indictments might be handed down against some investors, who knew that the transactions were a sham...