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Dates: during 1990-1999
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FIRST it was Pepsi, then Billy Joel. Now, McDonald's and the corporate practices of Donald Trump have crossed the Iron Curtain. Moscow may resemble the U.S. faster than we expected--except it will look more like Wall Street than Washington...

Author: By Beth L. Pinsker, | Title: Freedom at Fire Sale Prices | 3/21/1990 | See Source »

...would have to cheer loudly because Gorbachev is a very good student. His handling of the situation in Lithuania is reminiscent of Donald Trump's battle with Merv Griffin over casinos in Atlantic City...

Author: By Beth L. Pinsker, | Title: Freedom at Fire Sale Prices | 3/21/1990 | See Source »

...average citizen has no power over Trump except the sovereign right to ignore him. The exercise of optional knowledge. If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, if a 90-story grandiosity occurs in Gotham and no one is there to witness it, then have either of these events occurred? The second event undoubtedly has. Trump involves certain pharaonic consequences. He sprays his name on buildings and airplanes: a very, very rich graffiti artist. Trump is a man whose ads speak of his apartment buildings as enactments of his "philosophy." Hugh Hefner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Let Us Recuse Ourselves Awhile | 3/5/1990 | See Source »

...Riveted" might be a better term. Smith, 67, unleashed a media tornado, still howling across the headlines, when she broke the Trump divorce story two weeks ago. Her revelation was trumpeted in the column she has written for the New York Daily News for 14 years, which appears in more than 60 other U.S. papers. She quickly took sides, advising Ivana to "stop sobbing over Donald Juan." Such partisanship might be harshly judged in a report about German unification. But Smith -- and the rest of the scoop troop -- is to objective reporting what Hulk Hogan is to Olympic wrestling. Almost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Liz Smith | 3/5/1990 | See Source »

...column, which consists of sweet-'n'-sour snacks served up drive-through quick, hit a public nerve that still tingles. The Trump divorce, she says, is typical of why people love gossip. "It is a faux scandal. You don't have to grapple with it morally. It's the kind of story that takes the public's mind off its own problems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Liz Smith | 3/5/1990 | See Source »

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