Word: randolph
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...burst upon the takeover scene in the early 1980s, Asher Edelman seemed to have a magic touch. Bright, brash and hyperconfident, he reaped more than $40 million in instant profits for himself and his investors by raiding and liquidating two dreary companies: Management Assistance, a computer maker, and Canal-Randolph, a real estate firm. Suddenly superrich, the Bard College graduate, reared on Long Island, N.Y., bought fashionable residences from Sun Valley to Switzerland, a 100-ft. yacht, a personal jet and a modern-art collection today rumored to be worth $100 million...
Founded by William Randolph Hearst in 1903, the Herald Examiner was once the country's largest afternoon daily. Since 1967, however, it has seen its circulation slide from 729,000 to a paltry 238,000. The paper switched to morning publication in 1981, but that attempt to accommodate modern reading habits did little to stem the continuing losses. Analysts also blamed intense pressure from the aggressive and highly respected Times (circ. 1.1 million) and from successful suburban papers, such as the Daily News of Los Angeles (186,000), based in the San Fernando Valley, and the Orange County Register...
...through the middle of November, the Bunting Institute's most recent exhibition. "Present Works" features visiting artists in the Harvard-Radcliffe community. Among those whose works are on exhibit include Priscilla Smith Bracket, with "A Different Vision: Landscape Painting", Barbara Elam-Dimock, with "Interiors of the Northeast". Lynn M. Randolph with "A Return to Alien Roots. Painting Outside Mainstream Western Culture, and Anne Seelback with "Industrial Relics." The Bunting Artists Show is open daily at the Institute Gallery from...
...latest nine schools to acknowledge that they have been contacted by federal investigators are: Brown University, Dartmouth College, Mount Holyoke College, Smith College, Wellesley College and Wheaton College in New England; the University of Pennsylvania and Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania, and Randolph-Macon Women's College in Virginia...
Most major suitmakers are in the covered-up swim. Designers Adrienne Vittadini and Randolph Duke are among those who have swirled out skirted suits, while Norma Kamali recalls the 1940s with long-line swimwear featuring elegant drapery. Former Hollywood star Esther Williams has lent her name to a line of classic one-piece suits reminiscent of her costumes in films like Neptune's Daughter. Using a bit of verbal camouflage, Body Glove Apparel, a California outfit, says its line is "cut for the Midwestern frame," and Sandcastle is doing well with a collection intended to "minimize common figure problems like...