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Golden's debut novel, chronicling the lush andexotic life of a geisha in the Japan of the 30sand 40s, has been wildly successful. InMemoirs, Sayuri, an aging geisha recountsher youth spent in the Okiya, a cloisteredbrothel where women trained for the rigors of theGeisha art. Hatsumomo is the primadonna geisha ofthe Okiya, supporting a household of youngapprentices and aged ex-geishas. From the momentSayuri is sold into the Okiya Hatsumomorecognizes her as a challenge to her supremacy andspends the rest of the novel plotting Sayuri'sdemise...
...scene in front of him could not have been any clearer: a nearly 6-ft.-tall teenager and a little girl who didn't yet weigh 50 lbs. locked in the stall of the Primadonna Resort casino at 3:47 in the morning. And yet Cash goes for a walk. He says nothing to the security guards. Less than half an hour later, Strohmeyer emerges and tells Cash he has molested and murdered the child. Cash, stunned, does not ask why. According to grand jury testimony obtained by the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Cash does venture one question...
...task. Dr. Anna Balcar (Erica Rabbit '00) and Karel Kriebel (Tinker Green) try putting Puzuk, who appears to be a hunk of gears and metal, into the freezer and into the oven in order to adjust its temperature. Nothing seems to work, and technology is represented as a useless primadonna...
...past, the company and Sinatra seemed an ideal match. In addition to its real estate and construction activity, the company owns four major Nevada hotels and casinos: the Sahara and the Mint in Las Vegas, the Sahara Tahoe in Lake Tahoe and the Primadonna in Reno. Sinatra is both a Las Vegas entertainment idol and an entrepreneur. He even held a Nevada gaming license in the early '60s. Evidently impressed by Webb's potential, Sinatra in 1975 quietly began to acquire 420,000 shares, or 5%, of the company's outstanding stock. To finance part...
...makes with Meneghini. As for Onassis, it wasn't passion, just money, said Callas. "My relations with him involve business matters." One possible Onassis-backed "business matter": a contract to play the lead in a film version of Novelist Hans Habe's serialized German potboiler, Die Primadonna...