Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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BACK IN MARCH, IT WAS EStimated that the O.J. boomlet could add $200 million to the nation's gross domestic product. After seven additional months of merchandising, that figure begins to look a tad low when you account for all the revenue streams: legal fees; at least $60 million in gross revenues from various books; $5 million to $10 million in O.J. phone cards; $5 million in Simpson statuettes; $1.5 million in O.J. trading cards; Al Cowlings' 900 line--the whole affair begins to rank on a par with the annual sales of a mid-size company. A tentative accounting...
Last week, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) Jeremy R. Knowles made public the names of the faculty members of the new Core Program Review Committee (CPRC): Professors Anthony K. Appiah, John E. Dowling '57, Benedict H. Gross, Stanley Hoffman, Helen H. Vendler and Sidney Verba '53. The student members will be appointed later this year...
...dealer Charles Angelucci, on his cellular phone to clients as he bid, exulted over a Thomas Sully family portrait that he bought for $3,000. That was $2,000 under the estimate by Christie's, which conducted the auction and took a 15% commission off the gross...
...movie the dread NC-17 rating these days? Normally the reasons children are forbidden to see films are explicit sex and spectacular spasms of violence. In the case of Showgirls, though, the list of no-nos might read, "Obscene level of incompetence, excessive inanity in the story line, gross negligence of the viewer's intelligence, a prurient interest in the quick buck...
...Committee will be having many meetings with interested student groups this year, and I look forward to hearing their suggestions," Gross said in an e-mail message...