Word: alleys
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...longer enough. KIRSTIE ALLEY, who took risque spousal innuendoes to a new level when she thanked her husband PARKER STEVENSON "for giving me the big one for the last eight years" in her 1991 Emmy acceptance speech, is leaving it all behind. The two have announced the end of their almost 13-year marriage with a terse statement: "We intend to remain the best of friends and devoted parents to our children." Alley and Stevenson, both of whom are best known for signature TV roles--she in Cheers and he in The Hardy Boys Mysteries--have two adopted children, William...
...time for a few small repairs," says the heroine of the opening song, Sunny Came Home: a lost soul returns home, gathers up the kids and sets the place on fire, as the suave, singalong chorus offers the musical equivalent of God's unmeddling sympathy. The narrator in Suicide Alley, a nihilist's jaunty march, shares Sunny's glums: "I wasn't born, I was spat out at a wall...on the corner of First and Insane." In If I Were Brave, Colvin brings the alienation home, to the singer on the stage, "a clown to entertain the happy couples...
...would venture to write a different one. First, I want to see my brother go through the same check-list hell I did with my well-meaning mother. Second, I don't really think a true List exists. I have a feeling Rocky Horror isn't up everyone's alley. I suppose some people do wash and iron their clothes. And I'm sure that in the last six weeks, every first-year has found that he or she is missing something: home, friends, black lipstick. The List goes...
...abortion movement. Trained as a nurse-midwife during the 1960s in New York City's Harlem and in Dayton, Ohio, she spent the early years of her career in the trenches, caring for women and girls forced to deal with the consequences of unintended pregnancies and back-alley abortions. As director of the Dayton Planned Parenthood affiliate, and then as president of the national organization, she was at the forefront of the fight to legalize abortion and of the ongoing battle to prevent the erosion of Roe v. Wade. In her account, her efforts at Planned Parenthood were hindered...
...Bennett puts it, "You've got to go to places where Bill Clinton can't go." For the President to utter the words "middle-class tax cut" would amount to what Dole communications director John Buckley calls "revisiting the scene of the crime...He can chase us down several alleys. He cannot chase us down the tax-cut alley...