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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...parties four or five nights a week, sometimes with Ivana and sometimes without, but these are mostly official or charity affairs. "Donald is au courant about everything," says real estate dealer Alice Mason, who often encounters him on such occasions. Others can be warm in their praises. "As a friend, he's a real softy and very sweet," says opera star Beverly Sills. But Trump admits that he doesn't much enjoy the party life. "I hate going out on Sundays," he says. "I don't like going out on Monday nights either. I'm not sure I like going...
...large, welcome a building that deliberately adds nothing ot the life of the Square, shutting out everyone but paying guests? Finally does anyone expect Graham Gund to design anything less silly and overpriced than his gatehouse at Johnston Gate? (And anyone who thinks of Gund as a preservationist and friend of the community should recall that he is also a very wealthy developer and read up on his current attempts to muscle a commercial development onto Arrow Street over city objections...
...addition to the Johnson controversy, there have been the indictment of 11 city officials, including Deputy Mayor Ivanhoe Donaldson, one of Barry's best friends, as well as reports of Barry harassing a model and visiting strip joints, not mention $98,000 of undocumented expenses in Barry's own accounts. Not a week passes, it seems, without some charge of corruption, misuse of funds or influence-buying being brought against a Barry aide or friend...
...check for $1,000 that Ian had made out to Sigrid Hunt, a willowy young woman whom Glynnis had once taken up socially and then dropped. Ian's explanation happens to be factual: Sigrid had phoned him in distress and in need of an abortion. Assuming she was Glynnis' | friend, Ian had offered what comfort he could and a check. But Glynnis will not believe this story. Through a long, tense evening, the McCulloughs drink and argue. Suddenly Glynnis is brandishing a knife, there is blood on the floor, and Glynnis hurtles backward through a plate-glass window. After...
Brinker did not set out to become a savior. In 1984 a young architect she knew fell ill. "I'd never had any experience with AIDS," she recalls. "I was appalled at how quickly he became too sick to take care of himself." She and other friends formed a rotating caretaker group. But, occasionally, one would forget about his or her shift, and the dying architect went hungry until the next shift arrived. "I realized then," Brinker recalls, "that there were people throughout the city who didn't have my friend's support...