Word: leona
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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DIED. HARRY HELMSLEY, 87, crafty real estate billionaire whose crowning achievement was the purchase of the Empire State Building in 1961 for a then-record price of $65 million; in Scottsdale, Arizona. His success was tarnished by tax-evasion charges, resulting in his wife Leona's four-year sentence in 1989. A judge ruled Helmsley incompetent to stand trial...
...much about running for president as Roger Porter. Albert Lee Does anybody care about the U.C.? Does he care about the U.C.? Nice suit, though. Phil Kaufman Let's keep your kinder, gentler tax increase for our descendants and bring on the core reform now. Elizabeth Haynes The Leona Helmsley of the council. She knows her stuff, though. We'll meditate on that one. Joe Sena A mild-mannered man in a nice suit. No politics on the U.C.--what the PUCC are you thinking? Michael O'Mary How big are those coattails, anyway? Mawl Asgedom In the clearing stands...
...Xers. When it returned the following season it was something else altogether, a dumb-brilliant parody of the soap universe, a show in which women dressed for work as though life were a continual audition for the Howard Stern Show. Heather Locklear was now entrenched as a nasty, libidinal Leona Helmsley-ish landlady in the making, while Sydney the hooker-stripper was chasing her sister Jane's amoral husband Michael...
...believe Ms. Helmsley is charged in the indictment with being a tough bitch." --Gerald Feffer, unsuccessfully defending hotelier Leona Helmsley in her 1989 tax-evasion trial...
Forbes' vaunted optimism, like F.D.R.'s, springs from the security and confidence that seem his birthright. Yet F.D.R.'s smile told Americans that we could face adversity, and triumph. Forbes' smile comes without the challenge. Leona Helmsley once ran hotel ads telling customers not to put up with anything she wouldn't. 'I've never had to make a hard choice," Forbes seems to say, similarly. "Why should...