Word: giant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After filming ended, I had one more movie-making adventure. The other production assistants were making an experimental short and asked if I'd like to be in it. I agreed. A week later I found myself on the Venice boardwalk in a purple grape costume. Giant purple foam cantaloupe-sized grapes cocooned me, long sleeves and past my knees. Tourists asked if they could take my picture, and a few new pick-up lines floated by: "Can I squeeze your grapes?" One of my high school teachers walked by, barely surprised to see me dancing in my grapes...
...wool sweaters safe in the Dunster squash courts were a distant memory as I posed in the sand, a giant purple vision, as the skateboarders shook their heads in disbelief. The waves crashed, the palm trees swayed in the background, the rollerbladers whizzed by and I vogued for the camera, home in La-La Land. Dorothy said it best in the Wizard of Oz, "There's no place like home...
...giant pot of money. "But this is not the tail wagging the dog," insists Frank Salerno, a managing director in charge of index funds at Bankers Trust. Index funds, including the big pension money, account for only 10% of all the money invested in S&P 500 companies. It's unlikely that such a small percentage is dominating the index. The other 90%, which presumably has made reasoned judgments about value, has a lot more to say about where the S&P 500 is going. Yes, prices relative to earnings on big stocks like General Electric and Coca-Cola...
...offers before a formal go-ahead is issued. A green light is expected as early as next week. While the Europeans could not have blocked the merger, they could have prevented Boeing from setting up shop anywhere in the soon-to-be-enlarged Union, or fined the aviation giant as much as $4.8 billion if it went ahead with the merger without community approval...
...NAFTA generation is movie actress Salma Hayek. Most Americans know her as a rising Hollywood siren (Desperado, Fools Rush In). What they don't know is that behind her almond-eyed beauty lies an outspoken Mexican rebel. Six years ago, as a soap-opera star at Televisa, the broadcast giant that has strong ties to the P.R.I., she stunned her bosses and fans by bolting to Los Angeles. Today Hayek, 28, still delights in snubbing her country's Establishment in ways few celebrities have dared--whether by endorsing new competition against Mexico's telephone monopoly or slamming the P.R.I...