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...other people, he serves up deadly, sweeping categorizations. According to Sedaris, the people who most want to be in acting are always "Jews, homosexuals, and portly girls, whose faces were caked with acne medication." Of people who live in trailers, he remarks that, in general, they "peed in the sink and used metal buckets to barbeque tough purple steaks marked 'reduced for final sale.'" His sense of humor is alert and p.c.-heedless...
...cigarette maker American Brands. He lost his resolve but found a profit, making $30 million when he surprised other investors by selling the stock. He made one of his biggest killings early this decade. LeBow had bought the Western Union money-transfer business in 1987, and watched his company sink into bankruptcy in 1991. Then, amazingly enough, he managed to find a buyer for the business a couple of years ago, which allowed him to pay off old debts and emerge with some $300 million in cash--his springboard to the skirmish with RJR and a rejuvenated raiding career...
...film will continue to draw crowds decades after its original release. On March 21, hundreds of Americans will pour into theaters, eager to give in to the devils seated firmly on their shoulders, ready to re-live Brando's old-world pout and Pacino's charged stare, eager to sink their teeth into the juicy multi-hour saga of men behaving oh-so-badly...
Eggs, ice cream, concentrated juice and other items had been poured in the sink and smeared over the interior of the refrigerator, she said...
...President Clinton would veto any bill that forces employees to choose between overtime pay and compensatory time off for long hours. AFL-CIO President John Sweeney had opened the meeting with a call to action: having halted a twenty-year slide in membership, the union is now poised to sink fully one-third of its $60 million budget into a national organizing drive. Before leaving town, Gephardt took the opportunity to offer the union still another small plum, knocking NAFTA at a news conference, and telling reporters that it "was not working properly" and "needed to be improved." While Gephardt...