Word: lazar
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Michael Lazar, former city transportation head, was also convicted of two counts of mail fraud; ex-PVB director Lester Shafran was convicted of two counts of mail fraud; and businessman Marvin Kaplan was convicted of one count of mail fraud and perjury for lying before the Securities and Exchange Commission...
RICO indictments against two former New York City officials, Michael Lazar and Lester Shafran, in a growing municipal government scandal. Lazar, the onetime city transportation administrator, and Shafran, formerly director of the scandal-ridden parking violations bureau, were accused of bribery and, said prosecutors, operated the bureau "as a racketeering enterprise...
...still don't get as much as we'd like." A cruise to Brazil to observe the progress of Halley's comet is already sold out at prices of about $3,450, depending on accommodations, even though the cruise does not begin until March of next year. To Terry Lazar, vice president of New York's Vacation Travel Concepts, the action is more than a matter of favorable exchange rates. Says he: "People are going abroad because they feel good. There is optimism in the air. It's a great time to live...
Repulsive as Larry Lazar often is, he maneuvers so clumsily that he has a certain bearlike charm. Moreover, his victims are in their ways equally ravenous for sex, money and fame, and as eager to use Lazar as he is to use them. Mira, an old girlfriend, resumes a romance only to take back a now valuable piece from her early career as a sculptor. Michael, a lesbian, seduces Lazar in order to get him to read her screenplay. Sidney Stein, a novelist, invites Lazar to his home for dinner merely to lure him out into the woods and beat...
Despite this exuberance, the novel might have benefited from more scenes with the only character sufficiently outsize to compete with the film maker: his driving, obsessive mother. The focus of the novel is Larry Lazar's awareness that his whole life has been a vain effort to win her explicit approval, and in her too brief scenes she dominates the story as effectively as she rules the family around her. Still, there is not a false note in the whole shrill song, and in its balanced skewering of Brooklyn and Beverly Hills, The Return of Mr. Hollywood may launch...