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...high culture and low, no dividing line between the aesthetics of refinement and ostentation. He finished off his splendidly cut couture gowns (costing $20,000-plus) with accoutrements of denim and plastic. During his abbreviated life Versace designed costumes for several operas produced at Milan's fabled La Scala, and outfitted the cast of Miami Vice. He took stately villas and compounds in Milan, Lake Como, Miami Beach and New York City and refurbished them into homes unimaginably ornate...
Other new firms are helping to repair crack-ups in the financial industry. Tim Scala and Ken Jingozian left banking jobs last year to become self-styled derivatives investigators -- experts who advise clients on how to cope with the risks of those securities. Their timing was uncanny: soon after Scala and Jingozian created their New York City-based firm, Treasury Resources Consulting and Investigations, the Federal Reserve raised interest rates and sent the value of many derivatives plunging. Their phone has hardly stopped ringing. Says Jingozian: "The entire derivatives market has taken a quantum leap in complexity and sophistication...
...group broadcasts alternative programs from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. Sunday through Thursday. During the rest of the day, it broadcasts the international news service SCALA on channel...
...Kirov -- both the opera and dance divisions -- have busily signed Western contracts. The ballet will perform The Nutcracker in Tokyo each year for the next decade. The opera, besides a major contract with Philips Records, has co-production deals going with Covent Garden and La Scala, among others. But it will not return to the U.S. until 1995: Gergiev is wisely wary of overexposure...
...provide his country with much-needed venture capital, Andrew Sarlos, 58, a Hungarian who is the head of a major Toronto-based investment group, has raised $80 million for the new First Hungary Fund. In addition, Sarlos and a group of other Hungarian expatriates bought a 50% stake in Scala Co-op, Hungary's largest grocery chain, and a 50% share in Budapest General Banking and Trust. Zbigniew (Dick) Niemczycki, 43, a Warsaw-educated engineer who moved to the U.S. in 1977, has returned to Poland as an executive with SerVaas, an Indianapolis investment firm. The company's joint ventures...