Word: majorca
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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FUTURE DATING PROSPECTS: She was spotted in Majorca with monied British art dealer Tim Jeffries; he was seen at Sean ("Puff Daddy") Combs' Labor Day party with a Chilean journalist said to be a Schiffer look-alike...
Christopher Skase is wanted in Australia, following the 1989 collapse of his highly leveraged firm, Qintex, under $1 billion in debts. He resides in a mansion in Majorca, from which the Spanish government refuses to extradite...
...this is not Majorca, the all-too-famous Mediterranean resort. It is Minorca, the lesser-known jewel of the Balearic Islands. Its attractions tend to be subtler but are often deeper. Over 4,000 years of its inhabited history, Phoenicians, Carthaginians, Romans, Arabs, French and British have come and left their various imprints on Minorcan life, enriching its language and architecture. More than a beach vacation, Minorca is a 270-sq.-mi. museum, filled with ancient treasures. As many as 1,000 archaeological sites dot the countryside. Most of the monuments--including Bronze Age structures and early Christian basilicas...
...hand-engraved image on the stamp is based on a 1962 picture taken on the island of Majorca by Alfred Eisenstadt, one of LIFE's--and this century's--great photojournalists, whom Luce hired in 1936. Reproduced as a drawing on TIME's cover when Luce died in 1967, this particular photograph captures the formidable intelligence and fierce concentration that made Luce a great editor--and now, officially, a Great American...
...rest is Net history. Nearly 2,000 rock fans logged on to hear that Billboard Live performance, and now the band is getting airtime in Japan, selling tapes in Boston and taking phone calls from major record labels. "It's incredible!" says Rosenthal. "We've got fan mail from Majorca. I mean, how do you get that...