Word: suit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...says Copperfield's long engagement to CLAUDIA SCHIFFER is an illusion--something millions of males would dearly love to believe. The mag published a contract between Copperfield's German promoter and Schiffer that showed she was paid $20,000 for attending the 1993 show where the two met. The suit states that Paris Match added that the supermodel now gets paid for pretending to be Copperfield's fiance and doesn't even like him. Copperfield isn't denying the first deal, but he's so incensed at the second that he's suing for $30 million...
This contrast between subtlety and silliness, improbability and believability, makes for a thrilling yet well-balanced summer blockbuster. And, best of all, the ever-reliable Ford is there to save the day. Though the action seldom descends below 15,000 feet, and Ford wears a rumpled suit and tie rather than his trademark fedora and bull-whip, as always, his hero triumphs and survives with what is perhaps his greatest treasure: his family...
WASHINGTON: After overwhelmingly passing the balanced budget bill, Congress approved a tax cutting measure which will give Americans the biggest tax cut since 1981. After the House gave the package the thumbs up by a 389 to 43 vote, the Senate followed suit yesterday and passed the legislation 92 to 8. The bill, which is certain to be signed by President Clinton next week, calls for $152 billion in tax cuts over the next five years and will primarily benefit families with children, college students and investors. But the GOP said it isn't finished. While rejoicing in the measure...
...current incarnation as head of the animation company Pixar. Since he genuinely wants Apple to succeed, he will continue taking time out to talk strategy with the managers of the company he created. He's just not interested in running the show. "Managing has never been his strongest suit," says Jackson. "But he's the world's best evangelist and if he can find a way to inspire the company while staying out of the way of the CEO they choose to run it, then that will be the best solution for Apple...
...North and investigating the riots at Attica. (The searing Attica report he helped write was nominated for a National Book Award.) The famously disheveled Liman was known for getting so caught up in the advocacy he loved that he sometimes showed up in court with the pants from one suit and the jacket from another. (See Eulogy below...