Word: money
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Coop's profits go back to the membership at the end of the year. The other 18 per cent gets cut in half by taxes, and the remainder is all the Coop has left for reinvestment and growth. Although the Coop appears to have a lot of money, it really doesn't. There are not large sums hidden away in the vaults of the Harvard Trust. In fact, whenever the Coop has needed to expand in recent years, it has had to rely on debt-financing...
...says, "because from it I learned what not to do. I made up my mind that Hollywood is not a place filled with sinister characters lurking in half-shadows waiting to seduce virgins. It's a place filled with hardheaded business people out to make money...
Raquel's kind of place, it turned out. Her third day on the Hollywood rounds she met Patrick Curtis, an ex-child actor turned pressagent. It was love (money?) at first sight. Recalls Raquel: "I saw him and he saw me and that kind of thing. I am a very impulsive lady." An earlier husband-a tuna fisherman-had been cut adrift by the time Curtis took over...
...Raquel was among the top ten box-office draws. Her pictures are all instantly disposable-but so is the wrapper around a candy bar. "Everyone pays a lot of lip service to sensitivity and artistry," she complains. "But when you come right down to it, it's all money and shooting schedules. They want to be able to write everything out like a financial statement and come out with a neat little sum at the bottom...
Among the small wonders of the great age of Queen Victoria is the fact that the Queen herself once had a drawing master who wrote The Owl and the Pussy-Cat. Subsidized as they were with honey and plenty of money wrapped up in a five-pound note, the owl and the pussycat went on to achieve that monumental Victorian ideal, a happy marriage. Their creator, Edward Lear, however, never wed, though he sometimes used to talk sentimentally about marriage as "making a nest in the olive trees." It is not recorded whether the little Queen gave so much...