Word: frugalities
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...Dynasty and Falcon Crest are gone, swept away by a wave of proudly downscale fare, including Roseanne, The Simpsons and Married . . . with Children. Campy hobnobber Robin Leach of Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous has been replaced in the hearts of viewers by chatty Jeff Smith of The Frugal Gourmet and nonaerobic carpenter Norm Abram of The New Yankee Workshop. Love stories, melodramas and family films have taken over Hollywood. Home Alone, Ghost and Pretty Woman, for example, collectively reaped more than $500 million in total revenues last year. Get set for an onslaught of films about people waking...
Yetnikoff's devilish humor, irreverence for authority and barbed tongue were legendary. At a CBS Inc. shareholders meeting in 1986, he fell asleep at the dais -- or pretended to. He liked to refer to former CBS chief Thomas Wyman as "the goy upstairs" and to Wyman's successor, the frugal Laurence Tisch, with whom he feuded openly, as "the kike upstairs." When Tisch sold the record company to Sony, Yetnikoff, who engineered the deal, walked away with a $20 million bonus...
...will be forfeiting more money than any other felon in history. By another measure, the penalty is even larger than Union Carbide's $470 million settlement offer for the Bhopal disaster. Yet Milken's fortune, which has been estimated at $1.2 billion, is by no means wiped out. The frugal financier, who invested his monumental income instead of spending it, possesses an intricate web of assets that have been well sheltered from taxes and prying eyes. At the least, Milken is likely to remain a centimillionaire, a famous philanthropist and a formidable investor...
...critical period in which our national style took shape in the hands of artists like Winslow Homer, John Singer Sargent, and George Inness. American art celebrated the dignity of everyday life and everyday people, stripped beauty to its bones, proving that art can be as frugal as the bare New England landscape, as simple as a bowl of oranges on a white table cloth...
...These frugal years, he says, taught him adictum that has been of greater value thananything else in his life. "I learned that onlytwo things really matter: love and beauty...