Word: merchant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This weekend's event includes Harvard, tournament-host Fordham, St. Francis and the United States Merchant Marine Academy...
This may be a road show, but the sets and costumes are Broadway quality -- and so is the supporting cast. As the curmudgeonly Yonkers merchant Horace Vandergelder, Jay Garner is a heavyweight foil for Channing. Michael DeVries, as chief clerk Cornelius Hackl, and Florence Lacey, his vis-a-vis as milliner Irene Molloy, are an especially appealing pair of singing comedians...
...17th century, when slaves in the French colony began escaping from plantations into the mountains. After the ouster of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in a 1991 military coup, his supporters returned to the ways of their ancestors. They know the tricks of disguise -- men often dress as merchant women -- but the fear and frustration never fade. Families live apart, sometimes for years at a time. "You learn to live like a bat," says Aristide. "You fly at night...
...past few months, Zhirinovsky has tempered his message in an attempt to broaden his base of appeal. Specifically, the Liberal Democratic Party targets disgruntled military officers, the new commercial merchant class and the middle-aged, all of whom Communism left high and dry. Supposedly, Zhirinovsky's LDP has met with considerable success over the past few months, and with the Russian political balance so historically unstable, many voices sound the alarm...
...last 10 years of her life, Onassis kept company with a married financier and diamond merchant, Maurice Tempelsman, who reportedly multiplied his companion's wealth. (One source says that in 1991 her holdings included $1.5 million in cash, property -- including her $3.5 million apartment -- amounting to nearly $8 million, and $15 million to $20 million in stock.) An acquaintance of Jack Kennedy's, the Belgian-born Tempelsman, 64, eventually moved into her Fifth Avenue flat and shared her life at her $2 million summer spread in Martha's Vineyard...