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...Wasteful! Think of all those signs that need to be redone, all that stationery, all those forms. It's a huge undertaking, and for what? Far better simply to change the name to the Nation's Cutest, Nicest Bank . . . NCNB. This will save millions of dollars, and may even fool some folks into thinking NCNB, with its Marine Corps culture, is nice and cute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Money: Angles Let's Get Moving! | 2/3/1992 | See Source »

...apostasy, he wrote a mini- autobiography designed, apparently, to portray himself as normal. The last paragraph read: "The immortal Yeats wrote, 'Not a man alive has so much luck that he can play with.' As usual," Hart concluded, "Yeats put it right. A man would be a fool to take his luck for granted." Thus, in his own words, the fallen candidate's political epitaph: Gary Hart -- fool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Politics: Moment Of Truth | 2/3/1992 | See Source »

...still write novels and environmental treaties, design solar cells and stage sets, orchestrate symphonies and ad campaigns. They still care about tossing a salad or a baseball superbly. From science to show biz, they exert all the passion, wit, ingenuity, game playing -- and, yes, the ego, venality and damn-fool silliness -- that keep the human enterprise steaming along so entertainingly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best of 1991 | 1/6/1992 | See Source »

...that it's any surprise. When Irises sold for $53.9 million in 1987, any fool could see the Gogh-Gogh years were drawing to a close. No, it was not the peak; three years later, Van Gogh's Portrait of Dr. Gachet brought $82.5 million. But this is often the way it works, whether in the art market or any other -- a long run-up and then a final speculative blow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Money Angles: Marilyn, My Marilyn | 12/23/1991 | See Source »

...tell you how much I wound up paying for my Marilyn letter because you'll think I'm a fool. (All right, I paid $7,500 -- more than I've ever spent on a car.) And I won't tell you how I managed to get the price down even that little bit. (All right, as part of the deal, I agreed to buy a second item, for even more -- a letter from Albert Einstein describing Hitler as a lunatic -- and so got a little bit of a break on both.) But I will tell you that when novices like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Money Angles: Marilyn, My Marilyn | 12/23/1991 | See Source »

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