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...drives a trendy Mini Cooper in a country where vehicle-registration costs and taxes drive the price for that model up to $69,000, and he dines at Au Jardin, where the famous D?gustation menu comes with a bill for more than $80. Tan acknowledges he is a big spender: "Buddhism is not against making money; it's against being hooked on money. You have to make it to share it with others." He then recounts how he once spent $8,600 on a 1945 bottle of wine to drink with friends...
What we also realized about these red-letter days is that frequently we were telling the story of individual people, those who, to use Stephen Spender's phrase, "left the vivid air signed with their honor." (Or with their shame. History is not just a gallery of heroes.) Here's Jesse Owens waving to Hitler after crushing the Fuhrer's idea of Aryan superiority. Here's Tim Berners-Lee posting a message to colleagues about his idea to create the World Wide Web. We wanted to picture them as they went about their business, on a day when it just...
...chain sold 20 times as many size-32 bras in New York City as in other cities and that in Miami ivory was 10 times as popular as black. Aspect Communications, based in San Jose, Calif., sells a program that identifies callers by purchase history. The bigger the spender, the quicker the call gets picked up. So if you think your call is being answered in the order in which it was received, think again...
There were money problems as well. Despite weak advertising, Brown was a notorious big spender ("I did not go over budget [at Talk]," she insisted to TIME), and in just 2 1/2 years, Talk's losses swelled to an estimated $50 million. There was friction between Brown and her backers, Hearst executives and Harvey Weinstein, the hard-charging Miramax co-chairman. While Talk actually increased its ad pages and revenue in 2001, the post-Sept. 11 economic slump appeared to deliver the coup de grace. Said Talk Media president Ron Galotti, "It became fairly bleak for someone...not part...
Samuel H. Perwin '04's wonderfully overdone movie star Vittorio Vidal brings charisma, vitality and a commanding presence to a slow first act. Aside from a clever rendition of the classic "Hey Big Spender,"-a ballet bar has never been corrupted so well-the pace of the first act does not get going until Perwin arrives and provides Flader's Charity with an object for her romantic frustrations...