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They weren't cheering. Actually, they were waiting... and waiting... and waiting... for the playing of the national anthem...
...Queer Nation is pretty powerful," Allen says. Their anthem is a strong message that can "deal with people who are not willing to acknowledge gays and lesbians," she says...
...coach Jerry Tarkanian turned up in the Oval Office for a Bush handshake. Then Siegfried and Roy, the lion tamers and Strip headliners, also appeared in the President's office. Finally, during a Bush campaign stopover in Rochester, Minn., who should pop out of nowhere to sing the national anthem but Mr. Las Vegas himself, Wayne Newton. The odd sightings can all be traced to Sigmund Rogich, the President's events coordinator, who grew up dirt poor on the outskirts of Las Vegas and is now one of the Administration's few self-made millionaires...
...achieved since they began rebuilding their country from the rubble of the Korean War. "New York, Paris, are better than us, more beautiful," concedes a government guide. "But 40 years ago, New York, Paris, were the same." The nation "so rich in silver and in gold," as its national anthem proclaims, has enough resources to build $500 million stadiums, but its citizens must get by on about $50 a month. "These people have hard currency -- they are not so hopeless as ((the people in)) many other countries I deal with," says a European who is in Pyongyang to reschedule...
Well, the fat lady sang, and it's over. When Roseanne Barr screeched an off- key version of the national anthem, scratched her groin and spit at a ball game recently, she crossed the line between comedy and crudity. For an emerging group of female laugh getters, grossing out audiences is left to the likes of Andrew Dice Clay and Sam Kinison. Coven-like hairstyles are passe; so are Elizabeth Taylor fat jokes, delivered Uzi-style a la Joan Rivers, and the kind of masochistic self-deprecation that kept Phyllis Diller in face-lifts for two decades. The freshest funnywomen...