Word: maes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...apparently dealing in one of the tricky, relatively untested new types of securities. The bonds that tripped up Merrill Lynch are interest-only/principal-only securities, known as IOPOs. Investment houses create them by buying mortgage-backed bonds -- typically those issued by the Government National Mortgage Association, or Ginnie Mae -- and then splitting the securities into two parts, one that pays interest and another whose price rises or falls with the resale value of the bond. Rubin was selling the interest-paying bonds and hanging on to the principal securities, which lost value rapidly as interest rates rose...
Part of the fun comes from the band's off-the-wall character. Dash Rip Rock is named for Ellie Mae's suitor on "The Beverly Hillbillies." Its song-writers, guitarist Bill Davis and drummer Fred LeBlanc, compose love ballads, songs of graveyards and whiskey, and ominous-sounding instrumentals with equal facility. Their music mixes seemingly incompatible styles: Louisiana country music, rockabilly, and thrash-punk...
...belly dancer, I've gotten to play a lot of different parts," said Kathy Cashin, from Kingston, Mass. "One of my specialties is my Mae West interpretation," added the sometime singing telegram performer, who heard about the tryouts on WMGX radio station...
...regret) declared her intention to become a "legend." She made good on the boast with a song- and-comedy act that elicited raucous laughs and heaving sobs on both sides of the footlights. She was the Callas of Camp, peppering her program with naughty jokes in the spirit of Mae West and Sophie Tucker. Midler's good-timey raunch made her famous as the Divine Miss M, a creature she once described as embodying "everything you were afraid your little girl would grow up to be -- and your little boy." The image obscured her rightful claim as the most dynamic...
...mayor. A similar ordinance, passed in Indianapolis, was declared unconstitutional by a federal appeals court, a decision upheld in February by the Supreme Court. An uneasy alliance of Women Against Pornography and right-wing groups supported the legislation. Prominent feminists such as Friedan, Kate Millett and Rita Mae Brown opposed it, and the National Organization for Women avoided taking a position. The Meese Commission recommended hearings on a national version of the Dworkin-MacKinnon proposal...