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...summer are participating in the latest rite of American commerce: high culture as a profit center. With urban jobs and tax revenues shrinking, cities like Philadelphia eagerly seek blockbuster art shows to bring in the dollars. Major exhibits like New York City's 1992 Matisse retrospective can raise more moola than a Super Bowl or presidential convention. Chicago's four-month Monet show last year attracted nearly a million viewers and pulled $140 million into the area, surpassing the $109 million that Super Bowl XXX fans brought to Arizona last January when the game was held in Tempe...
...nothing will change, not with all the moola being thrown around. Next year, players will still whine about clicking, cameras. Sappy fans will still refer to the players by their first names. Waitresses will still sell me iced tea for two dollars, telling me that it's "splendid," but not that it's mostly ice. Agassi will still throw his sweaty shirt into the stands when he wins. The airplanes will still roar overhead. The best tennis in the United States will still be played. And once again, only the well-connected will get tickets...
...team the Department of Athletics wants to forget, the Radcliffe Rugby Club, needs some dough. Some moola. Fast cash...
Some of my friends have told me that there are advisor-type people I can talk to about my problems here at Harvard, Ms. Assistant, but frankly if that means paying a bribe I'm afraid I just don't have a whole heap of moola. So I'm writing to different Harvard graduate schools to see if I can't get a better price for a Harvard affiliation from one of them...
...year or more. In one memorable commercial earlier this year, for instance, Lebenthal was seen holding paper cows made out of folded bond certificates. "We've been selling a cow that instead of milk gives money," he declares in his precise, didactic tone. "So put a little moola in your portfolio and get yourself a cash cow." The message is getting across. Lebenthal & Co.'s sales have been growing at about 20% a year and reached an estimated $400 million...