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...gang member posing as a Merrill Lynch executive called First Chicago to arrange the transfer of $24 million to the account of "Lord Investments" in Vienna's Creditanstalt bank. He first heard a taped message: "This is First Chicago transfer operations. Your transaction is being recorded." Unfazed, the caller placed the order with one of Taylor's unwitting co-workers. Taylor pretended to phone another Merrill Lynch official for backup confirmation. He really called the Chicago home of Bailey, who gave an authentic-sounding "approval" as the tape rolled. The $24 million was promptly wired to New York's Citibank...
Although Amsterdam and Post Publisher Peter O. Price insist that the essential character of the paper will not change, it is already in transition. Under Press Lord Rupert Murdoch, the Post lost millions trying to win blue- collar readers away from the rival Daily News, while attracting a scant 10% of New York City's newspaper advertising dollars. After rescuing the paper from imminent death when Murdoch was forced to sell it last February, Kalikow brought in Price, who switched it from afternoon to morning publication and launched an expensive campaign to woo upscale commuters...
These characters were not new with Lucas, of course; they spanned epic literature from Ulysses and King Arthur to the Lord of the Rings and Gormenghast trilogies. But Star Wars gave a high-tech polish to the rustic hardware, a kick to the old eldritch machinery. Alas, a decade later, everything new in Lucas' films seems old again. There is a shroud of inevitability, of why-bother, about Willow's chase through the forest (done better in Return of the Jedi), the impromptu ride down a mountain on a warrior's shield (done better in The Living Daylights...
...even some disinterested observers have qualms about the tribunal. "This kind of thing is a mockery of the judicial process," says Quintin Hogg, Lord Hailsham, former Lord High Chancellor of Britain. "It is substituting trial by media for trial by courts." Simon Wiesenthal, the renowned Nazi hunter, also opposes the mock trial. "As soon as the international historians' commission had published its findings," he says, "the case should have become an affair for the Austrian voters only...
...grabbed for them, and when they did, Steve Blad, 5 ft. 8 in., 250 lbs., began gyrating in a pelvic dance. His fat belly rolled, while the women began gyrating right back at him. He kept up this routine. One day they tore off his clothes. "Thank the good Lord I was wearing boxer shorts," he says. "Now if I had been one a them Eur-o-peen men . . ." On another day, Steve held a negligee contest. Women modeled sexy negligees. Steve Blad put one on and modeled it. The women shrieked with laughter. "My Tupperware ladies," Steve calls them...