Word: sterne
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Built in just 147 days, the Monitor was a total innovation from bow to stern-including a flush toilet below the waterline...
...Elvis was the King, the monarch of proto-pop, Jerry Lee was Moloch, the pagan deity of the Middle East whose worship involved the sacrifice of children. The early-surly Elvis, once under the stern tutelage of the illegal immigrant from the Netherlands who called himself Col. Tom Parker, was processed and pasteurized into a nice young man who went Hollywood (and Vegas) almost as soon as he became a star. Jerry Lee, who had and would tolerate no image-makeover Svengali, wore the musk of venereal danger, styled himself as a reckless teen girl's wet dream...
Meanwhile, college costs are going up 6% a year; health-care costs 8%. Both far outstrip the expected 3% annual inflation rate over the next few years, and are taking a toll on boomers with college-age kids and dependent parents. What can they do? William Stern, 48, an optometrist in Shawano, Wis., has invested aggressively in stocks for 23 years. He recently shifted 20% of his assets to bonds. "I'm trying to reduce the risk in my portfolio," he says. He has also beefed up his savings rate, tucking away more than his goal of 20% of income...
...going to be a victim." When Lansing, who is married to director William Friedkin (The Exorcist), took the Paramount job in 1992, she continued to spin gold out of what she calls "female empowerment films" such as The First Wives Club and Double Jeopardy. She has a stern but maternal demeanor in the office. ("She can say no to you in the most endearing way," says Variety editor Peter Bart, who was a Paramount exec in the early '70s.) Lansing concedes that being a woman heavily influences the kinds of movies she makes. "You have all these rational reasons...
Throughout the makeup humiliation, Stern, whose ever presence is starting to make me worry about the state of his client's appeal case, takes pictures of me with a disposable camera. At 1:15 a.m., after half an hour of washing my face and returning to bed to watch the beginning of The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom, I tell Smith I have to leave. When she gets out of bed to hug me goodbye, I palm the disposable camera with the incriminating pictures and slip it into my pocket. The truth is, no matter...