Word: gift
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some donors are angry about the mismanagement that led to the fund-raising scandal; others are skittish about the scrutiny any large gift will now receive. Democratic co-chairman Steven Grossman contends that contributors are responding to his pitch about investing in the party's grass roots and that the debt "is absolutely manageable," but for now the D.N.C. must resort to the tricks of the overextended. Payments to vendors are late; some donors to last week's gala were asked to send their checks overnight to help the party make its payroll...
...also connect with their audience. McNally wrote Frankie and Johnny early in his career, before Master Class and Love! Valour! Compassion! made him a latter-day B-way comic bard. Here, he plays the beginner's trick of substituting theme or plot with sparkling layers of verbal gift wrap...
Burt-Kinderman performs the balancing act well. She moves with a casual grace that really transforms the Loeb from a theatre space into a real woman's apartment. She also has the rare comic gift of winning laughs without seeming to have any punch lines. Her jokes fall humbly out of her mouth as if she had just made them...
Onward: From the career front, KELLIE PETROVA writes that after 22 years of preparing audits for Peat Marwick, she made the jump to Bits 'n' Bobs, a Palm Beach gift shop, where she hand-paints unicorns and rainbows on baby pillows--"finally, something right-brained," as she puts it. Harebrained is more like it! Kellie recently divorced third husband DEREK CHAPIN after their adopted son Jason, 17, sued to learn the identity of his birth parents so he could see if he was a legacy at a decent college. Incredibly, Jason's real parents turned out to be none other...
This year, the senior class followed suit by setting up the Alternative Senior Gift Fund, whereby seniors may donate money to be similarly withheld...