Word: took
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...account of the sad tryst of a girl and her stepfather--the "real" story behind Humbert's besotted ravings in a book titled Lolita. We are told that Dolores ("Lolita") Maze (not Haze) met Humbert Guibert (not Humbert) in the home of her mother Isabel (not Charlotte); that Humbert took a fancy to Lo; that he married the mother to get to the daughter; that on the mother's death, Hum and Lo took to the open road, fitfully pursued by the girl's true love, playwright Gerry Sue Filthy (not Clare Quilty), for whom she ultimately abandoned...
...sort of quote we've traditionally associated with financial titans. I can't imagine Andrew Carnegie calling in the press to insist that his buns were in fact a lot tighter than photographs made them appear. Still, times have changed. Personally, I took Perelman at his word. Also the Times reporter, Rick Marin, provided some confirmation in the story: "Short...
DIED. MARTIN DAVIS, 72, creator of Paramount Communications; of a heart attack; in New York City. Former boss to Hollywood heavyweights Michael Eisner, Barry Diller and the late Brandon Tartikoff, the famously temper-prone executive took over the company from Gulf & Western in 1983--and doubled its stock value in his 11 years at its helm. Among his better-known takeover attempts: an ultimately unsuccessful bid to wrest Time Inc. (parent company of TIME) from Warner Communications...
...desire to work with the underprivileged that got Wu, who took accounting in college, interested in recycling. After spending six years in the U.S. and Japan studying that industry, she returned home in 1989 to find Taiwanese recycling in disarray. National laws required that manufacturers pay fees to subsidize the reuse of materials from such products as bottles and cars. But independent foundations were set up to receive the money, and critics charged that little ever went to recycling firms...
Until recently, Ellis fought back against the press the old-fashioned way--issuing forceful denials and filing the occasional libel lawsuit. Last week, though, he launched an unprecedented pre-emptive strike. With ABC's 20/20 preparing a segment about his San Diego-based diet empire, Ellis took out a full-page ad in the New York Times and other newspapers, directing readers to a website newsinterview.com where they can see the newsmagazine's full, unedited interview with him, before ABC airs its own snippets...