Word: galleon
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...flip side of Archie," is the way Lear describes Maude. "She is a Roosevelt liberal who has her feet firmly planted in the '40s." Maude knows how to arrange all the right-thinking enlightened attitudes around herself, but when she is challenged they open up like gunwales on a galleon, and she blazes away with broadsides at feckless repairmen, greedy cab drivers and her priggish right-wing neighbor...
...been no stranger to controversy. It visited him again last week when a Florida coin expert determined that a number of coins being sold through Fisher's museum were fakes. The county attorney has warned concerned customers that others may be too. The coins, purportedly taken from a Spanish galleon fleet lost in a hurricane off the Florida Keys in 1733, are genuine gold but not necessarily authentic, even though buyers received certificates from Fisher and his firm attesting to their age and origin. For example, a coin purchased for $5,900 may be worth only $272.50 based on current...
Authorities, however, have yet to file charges against Fisher, who at 75 is in poor health. The treasure hunter, who received widespread fame with the discovery of the 1622 wreck of the Spanish galleon Nuestra Senora de Atocha in 1985, says he no longer personally dives for the coins. But Fisher is adamant that he has sold no fakes. "The whole thing is absolutely baloney," he says. "There are thousands of different markings on these coins, and no one could ever counterfeit one of them because they are all different. These coins are absolutely real." A similar controversy over silver...
...beautiful it made you want to cry almost. It was like seeing some young, lovely woman on the arm of a short, sleazy general. The soft breeze off the sea; the intermittent light of cars, winking along the Malecon; the Nacional above us, like a giant beached galleon: it was like a romantic's Eden. And here I was with the brightest Eve in Havana, and she was asking me to rescue her from Paradise...
Good thing Allen didn't mention the new four-wheel-drive Porsche the studio just bought him. But then, the Disney comptroller can hardly complain. Allen has made a pirate's galleon of loot for the company during a year in which he has pulled off an unheard-of triple play. Home Improvement, his ABC sitcom now in its fourth season, is TV's No. 1-rated show, earning Disney $400 million thus far in the sale of reruns. His jokey autobiographical book, Don't Stand Too Close to a Naked Man, reached No. 1 on the New York Times...