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LOOK at Donald Trump, the epitome of creativity, hard work, brains and "good ole American guts." He's so generous he's lent his name to so many places and things like the Trump Tower. Could the Japanese have engineered as great a publicity stunt as Marla Maples...

Author: By Betty Hung, | Title: Will Japan Buy Harvard Too? | 4/9/1990 | See Source »

When Donald Trump decided to acquire his own Taj Mahal, purity, holiness and unhappiness were certainly the last things on his mind. Trump's tastes run more toward grandiosity ("the eighth wonder of the world"), hyperbole ("totally unique") and wishful thinking ("the crowds are going to be so big, you won't be able to get into the place"). India's Taj Mahal took 22 years and more than 20,000 workmen to build. Trump's Atlantic City version took only eight years and 1,800 laborers. But Trump cedes nothing to the original structure. He claims to have built...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: A Candymaker Went Mad | 4/9/1990 | See Source »

This week the boy builder will cut the ribbon on his newest playground with the help, boasts he, of Michael Jackson, Liza Minnelli, but not Marla Maples, the mystery model at the center of the now legendary (and thoroughly tedious) Trump divorce. Roughly 1,800 reporters, photographers and media types will come to ogle "The Donald's" creation -- all 420 million sq. ft. of it, all $1 billion worth, all designed by an architect no one has heard of, in a city no one wants to live in. "It's a billion-dollar hotel," thumps Trump, "and it looks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: A Candymaker Went Mad | 4/9/1990 | See Source »

...Alexander the Great suite. But costs are incidental, since most of these luxury accommodations are reserved, on the house, for high rollers. "It has the most beautiful suites that have been built in any hotel," puffs Trump. "And I'm not just talking about Atlantic City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: A Candymaker Went Mad | 4/9/1990 | See Source »

...never flying the Trump Shuttle again...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: One Trump, No Heart | 4/4/1990 | See Source »

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