Word: steven
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Photographer Francesco Scavullo celebrated his 51st birthday at Manhattan's Studio 54, the tacky ex-TV studio that has been built into the Big Apple's most celebrated disco with the help of hype-hungry celebs. But why was his party so subdued? Why did Co-Owner Steven Rubell, 36, cross his wrists as though he were wearing handcuffs? Premonition, possibly. Two days later a federal judge, considering guilty pleas from Rubell and Partner Ian Schrager to charges of failing to pay $400,000 in taxes on income skimmed from disco receipts, hit them with 42-month jail...
...deputy auditor of Polk County, who wears a gold tie clip with the presidential seal and Carter's signature: "Who would have thought a son of an immigrant born on the southwest side of Des Moines would pick up the phone and have the White House calling?" Says Steven Schier, a political scientist who has written about the Iowa caucuses: "There's a lot of residual loyalty to Carter because Iowans are proud of the fact that they made...
...biggest bomb was Steven Spielberg's World War II farce, 1941, which cost Universal Pictures nearly $40 million, including promotional costs. "It was overdone, overproduced, overeverything," says Goldman. "It was like building a $1 million mousetrap to catch one mouse in the kitchen." Universal's president, Sidney Scheinberg, argues that "it's too early to say" how the picture will do and suggests that neither Universal nor Columbia, who co-financed the film, will lose any money. Yet movie analysts reckon that the film may have to gross as much as $100 million before the studios...
...breaststroke--1. Carbone (H) 2:11.206; 2. Tom Royal (H) 2:12.220; 3. Steven Dixon...