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Demovictory9

(35,822 posts)
Sun May 4, 2025, 07:17 PM May 4

$million salaried Art Institute director on leave after bizarre incident on overseas flight

stripped off his clothes on the plane. Now on leave from his $1 million dollar per year job.

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Demovictory9

(35,822 posts)
7. Yeah..seems high. Univ Cal chancellors make less
Sun May 4, 2025, 10:33 PM
May 4

For overseeing 30k plus employees and massive campuses

a kennedy

(33,574 posts)
6. Funny isn't it?? A millionaire Art Institute Director does this act, and "oh he's just mixed his drugs".....
Sun May 4, 2025, 08:52 PM
May 4

Much poorer folk would get arrested and not see the light of day again. Oh yah, dollars can bring an end to suffering.

PurgedVoter

(2,510 posts)
8. I am trying to remember the term Heinlein used.
Sun May 4, 2025, 10:50 PM
May 4

Something like the Silly Season. He did use that I think in "The Year of the Jackpot," and this story seems to echo some elements, but Heinlein, I think had another term he used in several stories. I don't recall what it was though.

LudwigPastorius

(12,491 posts)
9. He was just trying to give passengers a preview of the Art Institute's upcoming "Rodin's Nudes" exhibition.
Sun May 4, 2025, 10:53 PM
May 4
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