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...million; he is known to ring up as much as $400,000 a week in credit-card bills and is said to stock his British homes with 240 flower arrangements a week. He is also generous to charitable causes and is God's gift to the spectacle and sunglass industry. John's rep says that the singer's finances are in fine harmony and that the loan is merely to help him buy back rights to six of his albums. Has he ever heard of a budget...
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...some point in life. Social status is no indicator of susceptibility and no defense against it. For instance, while many of the dead at Jonestown were poor, the Solar Temple favors the carriage trade. Its disciples have included the wife and son of the founder of the Vuarnet sunglass company. The Branch Davidians at Waco came from many walks of life. And at Rancho Santa Fe they were paragons of the entrepreneurial class, so well organized they died in shifts...
Truthfully, I have never seen anything like it in my four years here. I particularly enjoyed the comment of one sunglass-clad first year who said, "When I came to Harvard, I expected I'd be in the library all the time. But all they do here is have fun events outdoors." I didn't have the heart to tell her that with the exception of HYPE and the occasional Springfest exciting outdoor activity other than a long walk through the snow to class is not exactly the student body's strong point...
...trite as the plot is, the main characters rescue it from oblivion. The trenchcoat-and-sunglass-clad, play-it-by-the-book Doug Chesnic is perfect contrast to the odd but kind Tess Carlisle. Several political references also spice up the dull script. Some are to past administrations, like when Tess says that all Agnew and Johnson ever did was play golf: "If was a blessing for the country." Others allude to Bill and Hillary. When Tess watches old news clips about her husband, the audience learns her Clinton-like history relatively painlessly. Mr. and Mrs. Carlisle met at Denison...