Word: offer
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Most times, of course, you also go for money. But Seinfeld insists recompense was not a consideration despite NBC's reported offer of an unprecedented $5 million a show if he would return for another season. Seinfeld refuses to confirm the figure. "I don't really care about the money," he insists. "In my business, the only way you get as much money as I have"--Forbes put his earnings last year at $66 million--"is if you don't care about money and you care about comedy; then somehow you end up with money. I'm not the kind...
...didn't have the job. You can't entirely blame him for being confused: according to the San Francisco Chronicle, he had E-mail from Apple CEO Steve Jobs and board member Larry Ellison telling him he was hired. The E-mail was real--but the job offer was totally tongue in cheek. Seems Jobs was fed up with Murdock's persistent inquiries about the position and decided to handle it with humor...
...women--one mourning a lost child, the other yearning to have one--offer mirror images of the mothering instinct. The men--a working stiff grabbing furtive pleasure on the fly and an executive taking stupid risks (Jeffrey likes to tiptoe along balustrades high above the street)--reflect, in their class-differentiated ways, the contemporary male's desperate need for adventure. But Afterglow's writer-director, Alan Rudolph, is not entirely certain whether temporarily mixing and rematching these couples is a funny idea or a poignant...
SACRAMENTO: So another attempt to end the tortured spectacle of the Unabomber trial has failed. It's being reported ? and not denied by the Justice Department ? that Ted Kaczynski made a second offer to plead guilty in exchange for his life. But Reno's men turned down the deal because it left a remote chance Kaczynski could someday go free. The court is still considering the issue of Kaczynski's competency, and if the Unabomber suspect were found mentally unfit, any plea bargain deal would go out of the window. That would not automatically give Kaczynski...
...defendant doesn't look ready to dignify the demand, not even with a counter-offer. Reporters searching for a quote from the Clinton camp have been forced to fall back on an old maxim from his lawyer, Robert Bennett, who insisted, way back, that Clinton "will not apologize for something he didn't do." Indeed, all signs are that the President's in for the long haul on this one. And if that means facing the gaze of his accuser and losing some Chief Executive dignity...