Word: palmed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...incurable golfer, the club names are almost mythic: Palm Beach, La Quinta, Mission Hills. But the owner of those exotic courses, California's Landmark Land Co., has been stuck for months in that great sand trap of the American economy, the savings and loan crisis. Landmark owns the resorts through a New Orleans subsidiary, Oak Tree Savings Bank, which is under pressure from federal regulators to raise some cash and shore up its finances. As a result, Landmark agreed last week to sell nine golf clubs and resorts for an estimated $739 million to an investor group led by Tokyo...
...viewers in Palm Springs, Calif., had a little problem. Though satellite dishes were the best way to bring in additional channels, several homeowner associations banned the contraptions on the grounds that they are ugly. To the rescue came Under Cover Satellite Systems. The Indio, Calif., firm created dishes in disguise: satellite antennas that resemble patio umbrellas. For $3,000 to $5,000 -- about the price of an ordinary dish -- the company will have a dealer install one in any of six colors, complete with table and four matching chairs. The umbrella covers are made of a specially woven acrylic fabric...
...celebrities, assembled as a benefit for the American Cancer Society. A series of photos of Monroe at 19, taken by an Army photographer when the actress was working at an airplane factory in 1945, has been unearthed for an exhibition opening Jan. 3 at the Helander Gallery in Palm Beach, Fla. A close friend, actress Susan Strasberg, is writing a book about Monroe...
...made of dollar bills. In keeping with that notion, tony Florida clothier Maus & Hoffman is offering as gift wrap uncut sheets of 32 $1 bills for $55. (The Bureau of Engraving and Printing mails such sheets for $47.) Sales people at the company's five stores in Palm Beach, Bal Harbour and other playgrounds of the rich attach a sticker warning that the wrapping is real money. They also provide instructions to iron the sheets and frame them or roll them up for storage in the family safe. Of course, says owner Bill Maus, "some customers simply cut them...
...Deco triumphal arch with gargantuan caryatids. In Cincinnati, on the facade of an office building, he simulated a Piranesian cutaway of a coffered Roman temple. His latest creation, on a lobby wall in Boston, is a lyrical evocation of a 19th century crystal pavilion, complete with painted palm trees and an image of tumbling water that blurs into a real fountain...