Word: swiss
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...also had other rich and powerful friends. For a while she dated the King of Morocco, who showered her with jewelry. During one separation from Bloomingdale in 1975, she moved into the Bel Air mansion of Bernie Cornfeld, after the sybaritic international financier had been released from a Swiss prison. Cornfeld, who then played host to a dozen other women, says that he kept Morgan in a special bedroom, linked to his by a secret passageway...
...International Olympic Committee does not meet in Athens, but in Lausanne, Switzerland. Why not let the Olympics become a Swiss event...
GRANTED, DE COUBERTIN'S vision saw the Games bestowing the glow of friendly competition among athletes upon a different country every four years. And, after a few decades, viewers around the globe will no doubt become more familiar with the intricacies of Swiss banking than is necessary. But given the current mess and assuming a desire to save the Games, setting up shop near the Alps may prove to be a decent compromise solution. Besides, in the end, the location of the Olympics is irrelevant. If we'd just leave them alone, the athletes could create enough of a spectacle...
...architectural tone of 53rd Street-and of midtown Manhattan in general-was set by brownstones, mansions and beaux-arts commercial buildings. It was a world of rich, plum-pudding surfaces. When MOMA raised its polemic International Style façade of glass and polished marble, with those futuristic Swiss-cheese holes in the roof canopy, it looked apparitional. But now the context has shifted again. Thanks to the competitive urges of developers, the very idea of the glass tower has acquired a bluster it never had before; its epitome is the kind of boy-pharaoh glitziness favored by Donald Trump...
...federal grand jury there is reportedly investigating allegations of criminal fraud. The charges against De Lorean stem from the creditors' claims of more than $120 million against the car company. A major charge: that the ex-automaker siphoned off $8.5 million of company money through a Swiss bank into his personal account in the U.S. De Lorean will not be obliged to testify before the grand jury until his trial in Los Angeles is over, which might not be until June...