Word: grandson
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Gucci's sexy but sleek designs still press all the fashionistas' buttons, but the firm has been buffeted by other ill winds, from the ongoing trial in Italy of Patrizia Gucci (charged with murdering her ex-spouse Maurizio Gucci, grandson of the company's founder) to worries about the fallout from the Asian financial crisis. Last September, when De Sole announced that profits growth for 1997 would be lower than expected, Gucci stock plummeted almost 20% in one day. Sure enough, the company announced last week that this year's first-quarter net profit had dropped 10% from last year...
...year, up 66% since 1990; an additional 160 million watched on five broadcast and cable-television networks. NASCAR's TV ratings regularly beat professional basketball, baseball and hockey and are second only to the NFL in major league sports. "The real value that is going up," says Brian France, grandson of NASCAR's founder Bill France and the organization's senior vice president of marketing, "is the amount of media that companies are willing to dedicate to NASCAR. Five years ago, they didn't think the television reach was there...
...HALL. Painter Lucian Freud, who has turned down offers to paint Queen Elizabeth and Pope John Paul II (and has had one of his pieces sold at auction for $5.8 million), painted the statuesque wife of MICK JAGGER. Best known for disturbing portraits of fleshy naked women, Sigmund's grandson shows the leggy Texan both pregnant and with her then infant son. The paintings will be premiered at London's Tate Gallery on Wednesday...
Tcherepnin had a rich musical background. Born in Paris, he was the son and grandson of composers. He studied in Europe and worked with composers John Cage and David Tudor while living in San Francisco...
...them by corruption and malfeasance that cost Suharto his legitimacy. Much of the anger focused on the rapaciousness of his family, whose members controlled large sectors of the economy, from airlines, hotel chains and car manufacturing to a monopoly in cloves. Even as the economy was imploding, Suharto's grandson Ari Sigit was trying to set up a monopoly in school shoes...