Word: restorationism
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The only problem is that because those companies "donated" money in return for the rights to use the Statue in their advertisements, little charity was involved. Rather, an elaborate marketing scheme financed the restoration of the Statue.
Smaller businesses, like a little Pennsylvanian florist shop, were reprimanded and threatened with fines for donating smaller amounts to the restoration. Iaccoca claimed that the smaller businesses that were trying to raise funds were damaging his fundraising efforts by using the same logo that he was charging other companies millions...
Consider John Adams the founding executive producer of this year's Fourth of July festivities. The second President did not, of course, know about the Statue of Liberty, much less Hollywood mini-series or the value of a rating point. But David Wolper, the actual executive producer of Liberty Weekend...
Wolper insists that "not one cent" of the statue's restoration funds is paying for Liberty Weekend. "All of the costs are being covered by the sale of television rights and tickets," he says. But many of the tickets for the opening and closing ceremonies are unsold. Of the total...
LeRoy did spend several hundred thousand dollars on architectural plans, legal fees and so on, but there had to be protracted negotiations with the city parks department and the Bryant Park Restoration Corp. and the New York Public Library (which adjoins the park) and all the private watchdog groups that...