Word: jacked
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...There were the taxes and maintenance on Graceland, salaries for hangers-on and family members, the looming depredations of the IRS. By the early '80s, Priscilla, now both trustee for the Presley estate and president of EPE, had recruited her own money manager, a Kansas City, Mo., businessman named Jack Soden, and the two of them set about figuring out what to do with the estate. The most obvious move, which they explored, would have been to sell off Graceland; one potential buyer, the city of Memphis, did a feasibility study on using Graceland as a tourist attraction and concluded...
...work, but it exposes his feelings for the seductive lie of movies: that "cinema replaces our gaze with a world in harmony with our desires" (the same line is quoted in For Ever Mozart). A French playwright (Michel Piccoli) is hired for a rewrite job by an American producer (Jack Palance) who has eyes for the writer's sexy wife (Brigitte Bardot). With its polyglot cast and mixed-doubles leering, Contempt gets the Babel and Babylon of filmmaking down perfectly...
...social trends have done their work, and the violent-crime rates have fallen dramatically. Yet the unease remains--correctly, some scholars think. American crime rates still dwarf those of other industrial democracies. Moreover, in 1995, the percentage of murders committed by strangers was at a startling rate of 55%. Jack Levin, director of the Program for the Study for Violence at Northeastern University, notes that fear responds to crime quality as well as quantity. "It's the large body counts," he says, "it's the fact that more strangers are [dying] on a random basis; it's 12-year...
...comes from profits earned in the U.S. Yet the $50,000 donation and the $45,000 in checks given a year later came from Lippo subsidiaries that had been running in the red. Their leader, Huang, was looking for political profit. His note to chief of staff Jack Quinn thanked him for receiving Huang and Chinese official Shen Jueren at the White House, and for delivering the Vice President three days later to a Los Angeles event. Democratic sources tell TIME that on Sept. 27, 1993, Gore dropped by an intimate gathering of Asian Americans organized by Huang. His guest...
...contemplating enlisting the help of Dr. Jack Kevorkian, but I feel sympathy for the plight of terminally ill patients. I believe in freedom of choice for individuals, including those who wish to end their chronic suffering. What these people want is death with dignity. They seek a willing, understanding partner, be it Dr. Kevorkian or another like him, to give them moral support when, after all else has failed, they end their suffering. I salute all the doctors brave enough to challenge the law in order to assist those who seek their help. HERMINIA GASKIN New York City...