Word: pads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...kids seem to revel in the style of the man they privately call "Crazy Joe." More than a few look to him for help: a Hispanic girl approaches to whisper that she needs a winter coat. "I'll get you one," vows the principal, scribbling her name on a pad...
...Kuramata, 52, a furniture and interior designer with a considerable reputation in Europe as well as Japan. His boutiques around the world for Issey Miyake are black chain-link nests. The feel Kuramata seems to be after is a kind of monastery for 21st century hipsters, a futuristic Zen pad...
Interiors have also been updated. Instead of the traditional dark teak, many modern designers prefer the pale look of ash and pastel fabrics to lighten below-deck cabins. They often pad walls with Ultrasuede or leather for sound control. Denison's boatyard allows customers to supervise every detail right up to the track lighting. Bannenberg even designs every spoon, every ashtray...
...watch on the home of Maria McGuire (the delicious Madeleine Stowe), former girlfriend of a psychopathic criminal (Aidan Quinn) who has lately, bloodily escaped from jail. Somehow Lecce is snookered into love with the lady he is snarking on. Disguised as a telephone repairman, he insinuates himself into her pad, her bed, her heart. Dreyfuss is terrific in the role, abrupt and vulnerable; Estevez is adroit as a man comically appalled to see his partner surrendering a cop's honor to human need. And Director John Badham (WarGames) shows an unsuspected gift for comedy, ranging from the raunchy...
...that came atop the Bakkers' salary and compensation, which the current managers of PTL estimate at $1.6 million for 1986. That was up considerably from a decade earlier, when Bakker drew $24,000 in salary and expenses. In subsequent years, that amount ballooned as Bakker used expense accounts to pad his income. By 1982 Bakker was making about $129,000 and Tammy $52,000, yet all the Bakkers' expenses, from tutors for the couple's two children to their personal automobiles, were covered by PTL. The ministry paid for virtually everything, no matter how trivial: Bakker once summoned...