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...love down-home honesty, rubes named Roone and all you can eat. The two Sadies (Midler and Midler), true Manhattan ladies, swoon at the sight of stretch limos, Tiffany and anything in pants. The country Ratliffs come North to fight the city Sheltons, and all four stay at the Plaza Hotel. Doors slam and chaos reigns, beaux are vamped and revamped, ideals are compromised and identities scrambled in this conglomerate comedy of errors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Country Girls vs. Manhattan Ladies BIG BUSINESS | 6/13/1988 | See Source »

Charney followed the 56-year-old physician from West Palm Beach, Fla. for about five blocks from the site of the blaze at Yale's Beinecke Plaza before the pair stopped in a college dormitory archway. The two then engaged in a brief conversation before police arrived and arrested Bracey...

Author: By Spencer S. Hsu, | Title: Yale Alumnus Charged With Burning of Shanty | 6/8/1988 | See Source »

Daniels said the alumni did not resent the purpose of the shanty, but rather its placement on a plaza originally designed to memorialize "the Yale men who died in the World Wars...

Author: By Spencer S. Hsu, | Title: Yale Alumnus Charged With Burning of Shanty | 6/8/1988 | See Source »

...graduate of Duke and Harvard Business School, Pearlman worked two years for Plaza Securities, the firm of Corporate Raider Asher Edelman. Says Pearlman: "I don't think that age is the most important factor. It's doing your homework and understanding what needs to be done." Evidently, Wall Street agrees. Bankers Trust has offered Pearlman financing worth $120 million, proving that it thinks the young man's takeover is anything but kid stuff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TAKEOVERS: Raider League, Junior Division | 5/16/1988 | See Source »

...year ago, Michael Dukakis was just another Democratic dwarf, a successful but obscure Governor who wanted to become President. But money, as the song goes, changes everything. Last June the campaign held its first major fund raiser at Boston's Park Plaza Hotel. The take: $2.1 million, three times as much as any Democrat had ever received in a single event. The campaign privately set an ambitious goal of collecting $6.5 million in 1987, then ) proceeded to rake in $10 million. It made Dukakis a front runner before any votes were cast. "Money," says Bob Farmer, the Governor's fund...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Farmer with A Green Thumb | 4/25/1988 | See Source »

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