Word: marla
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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CONVICTED. Steven Bowman, 27, and Darren Norman, 20; of assault, after being charged with slashing the face of Model Marla Hanson, 25, last June at the behest of her former landlord, Makeup Artist Steven Roth, 28, who was convicted of assault last December; in New York City. Roth, upset by Hanson's refusal to date him and by her demand that he return her $850 apartment deposit, had promised Bowman and Norman an apartment as payment for their crime. All three men face up to 15 years in prison...
Consumer groups, however, were not ready to applaud. "That's a good first step, but they haven't gone far enough," said Marla Kaplan, associate director of Bankcard Holders of America, a consumer advice service that claims some 100,000 members. "It's time rates came down still farther." Alan Fox, chief lobbyist for the Consumer Federation of America, said cardholders could save $500 million a year if the average credit rate dropped to 17.1%. A recent federation study estimated that consumers spend a whopping $6 billion a year in interest on purchases made with bank cards...
...better bet is NBC's 227. Marla Gibbs, the wisecracking maid on The Jeffersons, plays Mary Jenkins, a housewife who spends her days sitting on the front stoop of her inner-city apartment house, gabbing about the things real people talk about, like when the garbage will be picked up and why the landlord is such a grouch. Gibbs' hangdog cynicism is funny, and the writers have a good ear for dialogue. In one scene Mary's 14-year-old daughter tries to sweet-talk Mom into letting her and a friend go to the movies. Mary figures...