Word: money
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lear discreetly sidesteps rumors of a boyfriend, but she says, "For older women, like older men, money is a plus when it comes to attracting the opposite sex." Except for weekly dinners with her two daughters, entertainment means magazine business. Parties are held at her Southampton beachfront mansion or cavernous Fifth Avenue apartment with its giant de Koonings, vast Persian rugs and a paralyzing view of Central Park. The service is formal but the tone relaxed. At a recent dinner for potential advertisers, Georgette Mosbacher, flame-haired CEO of La Prairie skin-care company and wife of the Secretary...
...autograph," Bob Feller says, "the kids would spray ink all over you." These days he gets $7. "Why shouldn't I sell my signature? If I'm on the street or at the ballpark and someone asks for an autograph, no problem. But with these shows, there's money to be made. That's where I charge...
...fact, some small investors are buying Treasuries by withdrawing money from accounts in banks or in savings and loans, which prompts Federal Reserve officials to point out that they do not deliberately try to compete with private institutions. Even so, the Government is a tough rival. Its customers can save the $25-to-$50 commissions that brokers and commercial banks charge on Treasury sales by purchasing the securities directly from the Government at a Federal Reserve Bank. For many investors, safety is still the ultimate lure. Said a Chicago police officer after buying a Treasury bond last week...
...might offer for his superb play, now off-Broadway, is that his characters seem Chekhovian only because they are so candid and self-aware. Kaiulani Lee is the older sister who sacrificed by staying home to tend to her father, Haviland Morris the sister who opted to marry for money, Margaret Colin the one who drowned herself in the Molotov cocktail of alcohol laced with utter honesty. John Pankow excels as the village lad who romanced each girl in turn, settled for the one who would have him, and went on to a diplomatic career that eclipses the golden clan...
...quite American and not quite Samoa: it sends a Congressman to Washington, but he is not allowed to vote; its 38,000 people are counted as "U.S. nationals" but cannot cast ballots for anything except island leaders. In the early 1960s, the Federal Government started pouring planeloads of money into its castaway dependency, partly in the spirit of idealism, and partly with an eye to its unmatched, and strategically useful, harbor (last year, Washington sent $45 million in direct aid to a community with one-sixth as many people as Mesa, Ariz.). Yet the U.S. has never bothered too much...