Word: solomons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Kerrigan's agent, who happens to be her husband, denied a published report that she was paid for the interview, saying she was paid only to skate, as were the other skaters. Jerry Solomon, who was 38 when he took on Kerrigan as a client at 23, married her after the Olympics and calls her one of his "strangest" cases--"Money doesn't motivate...
...back to Tonya. "We had a decision to make," Solomon says. He and Kerrigan knew "that going into the Olympics, this was going to be a big topic, and we could talk about it, or we could have gone to Aruba for a month...
...Solomon explained, "It really was time to try to deal with it so that everybody could move on, because Nancy has moved...
Precisely. Got married. Had a baby. Did her best to rehabilitate herself against unfairly harsh criticism of her every move. That's why she didn't need to lower herself. Perhaps Solomon is not familiar with that truest of all proverbs: "Lie down with dogs, get up with fleas...
...Morrison laughs at a subsequent event that has, in terms of mass recognition, affected her life more dramatically than did the Nobel Prize: the selection, in December 1996, of her 1977 novel Song of Solomon as the second offering of the Oprah Book Club. "I'd never heard of such a thing," she says, "and when someone called, all excited, with the news, all I could think was, 'Who's going to buy a book because of Oprah?'" The answer came fairly quickly and astonishingly. "A million copies of that book sold," she says, again shaking her head. "And sales...