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...more avant-garde echo of Sam Shepard -- a border skirmish between knockabout farce and knockdown violence. Yet Playwright Lanford Wilson manages to integrate well-crafted gags, mostly for the surviving gay roommate (Lou Liberatore). He describes his friend's gaudy casket as looking "like a giant Spode soup tureen." He says to the choreographer (Joan Allen) about her boyfriend (Jonathan Hogan), "I don't know why you don't just marry him and . . . buy things." In mock self-pity he demands, "Have you ever been to a gay New Year's Eve party? The suicide rate is higher than...
That is where Tribal Assets comes into the picture. The idea for the 3 1/2- year-old firm came from Thomas Tureen, 42, a graduate of Princeton College and George Washington University Law School, who took up the cause of Indian rights. In a ten-year court fight on behalf of the 4,200 members of Maine's Passamaquoddy and Penobscot tribes, he won an $81.5 million land-claim settlement in 1980. The Indians then asked him to become their financial adviser. Recalls Penobscot Chief Timothy Love: "We just did not want to dissipate all our money the way some...
...Under Tureen's guidance, the Maine Indians used a third of their settlement to repurchase 300,000 acres of lost forest land. Another third was put into a trust and now provides each Passamaquoddy and Penobscot household with a $1,000 to $1,200 annuity. To help the Indians invest the remaining $27 million, Tureen set up Tribal Assets in partnership with Daniel Zilkha, 44, a Princeton friend and former Wall Street investment banker. Because of Zilkha's connections in the financial community, says Tureen, "we had access to capital markets in a way that Indians would never have...
...America's Cup, yachting's great and garish grail, is a tumorous tureen no handsomer than a camel. In 1983 the news was not only that it was lost but that it was losable. A 132-year winning streak, the longest in all sport, was broken over the ample shoulders of San Diego Skipper Dennis Conner, the best and unlikeliest sailor in the world. He means to win it back this week...
Thomas N. Tureen, attorney for the Indians said yesterday, "the trial was going to be a futile act," because the U.S. Department of Interior will make the final decision regardless of whether its definition of a tribe differs from Skinner's. The department will base its decision on the findings of a panel of experts and tribal history archaeologists, Tureen added...