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Making matters worse, Raisa is scheduled to attend a Thursday gathering at the residence of Diplomat Averell Harriman's widow Pamela. Mrs. Harriman, an active Democrat, has invited such Reagan critics as the Washington Post's Katharine Graham and Maryland Senator Barbara Mikulski. Commented a Reagan aide on the Nancy-Raisa relationship: "They're not exactly soul mates...
...rainy-day reserves. Karen Peters, 43, of Orange, Calif., earns $48,000 a year as a county executive but typically keeps less than $1,000 in savings. On a recent trip to Santa Fe, she dropped $3,000 on a lithograph and a turquoise necklace. Says Peters, a widow who spends a portion of her income to help support her mother, 67, and daughter, 21: "Having money in the bank doesn't do anything for me. I figure I owe it to myself to enjoy myself...
...dollars. The past two years have seen a boom in alleged ethical lapses at even the bluest of blue-chip firms. New York's Sullivan & Cromwell found itself contesting no fewer than four accusations, notably one by an opposing firm that a partner bribed witnesses while representing the widow of Pharmaceutical Heir J. Seward Johnson in last year's estate battle. New York's Paul, Weiss discovered last year that a young associate, Michael David, had masterminded the "Yuppie Five" insider-trading scandal. Attorneys handling corporate mergers also sometimes get too close to the action. "Twenty years ago, lawyers said...
...they don't. The widow of a giant slain by Jack shows up to exact revenge and drives everyone back into the woods (mystical and eerie in Tony Straiges' design, spellbound in Richard Nelson's storybook-colored lighting). The threat she poses has been likened by some critics to nuclear war or AIDS; the rampant selfishness that soon erupts in the face of trouble is, the producers admit, meant as a subtle protest against the self-congratulatory individualism of the Reagan era. But with or without allusive implications, the story jolts its passive characters -- and spectators -- into a world where...
Beatrice (Carolyn Duffy), a divorcee and widow, considers her life a failure. Her marriage was a disaster, her career is nonexistent (she earns a measly $50 a week caring for unbearable invalids), her hopes for the future are dim, and her children, well, one is recovering from a mental breakdown and the other is busy experimenting with radioactive seeds...