Word: lavish
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Handling press for Bush must seem like a piece of cake to Nancy Reagan's former press secretary. Tate had to cope with such public relations nightmares as the "tiny little gun" the First Lady kept in her nightstand, the lavish redecoration of the White House and the $209,508 bill for new china. She performed an image transplant by getting the designer-obsessed First Lady to sing Second Hand Rose at the 1982 Gridiron dinner and to embark on her "Just Say No" antidrug campaign. Tate, 46, is the first woman to pierce Bush's all- male inner circle...
...from a family costume party to another stop on the relentless tour of all- purpose American event-attenders. Mardi Gras turned a corner in 1969 when the Krewe of Bacchus was formed by restaurant and hotel operators to stage a parade tailored specifically for tourists -- a spectacle considerably more lavish than the parades of the old-line krewes. The king of the parade each year was not some anonymous banker, secure in the knowledge that anyone who counts knows who's behind the mask, but somebody like Jackie Gleason or Perry Como or Ed McMahon. Eventually, there was a second...
Should they be convicted, Wasson and Pulliam will join a growing army of felons in the financial industry. The majority of the crimes, including fraudulent land deals, payouts to bogus borrowers and lavish living at depositors' expense, have been uncovered in Texas and California, where financial institutions grew especially fast in the early 1980s. But the problem is by no means restricted to those states. A report issued in January by the Comptroller of the Currency found that in 35% of the 189 U.S. bank failures from 1979 to 1987, fraud or insider abuse was "a significant factor." Among...
...Olympian is distinguished from the garden-variety athlete, at least in the U.S., by a fairly uniform obscurity. Except for two weeks every four years, the Olympian is roundly ignored. Thanks to lavish surpluses from the 1984 Games in Los Angeles, amateur facilities and finances have improved. But even in the glamorous -- meaning profitable, marketable -- pursuits like track and field, serious money touches just a few. Maybe only the top performer in only a third of the events is truly thriving. Most Olympians just...
...assurance (one rarely hears an "uh" in Oprah's speech), erupting high spirits and down-home sass. She talks amiably to the fans who constantly recognize her on the street, and personally says goodbye to each member of the studio audience filing out of her daily tapings. Despite her lavish life-style, Oprah notes, her plates still don't match, and she says she gave up a chauffeur because "it drove me crazy having someone at my beck and call." She now drives herself to work in a Jaguar convertible, often with her hair dripping wet from her morning shampoo...