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There was something more to Mantle, something all of us picked up from his most ardent admirers--his teammates. They would watch him come into the clubhouse (sometimes after a late night drinking), tape his legs from buttocks to ankle, then go out and hit tape-measure homers. Unlike the aloof Joe DiMaggio, whom he replaced at center, Mantle was generous and funny and self-effacing. Even in 1961, when he and Roger Maris were chasing Babe Ruth's home-run record, Mantle was supportive of Maris. "I'll always be a Yankee," he once said, and indeed, he followed...
...Republicans back in power on Capitol Hill also brought big gains for the antiabortion movement--at least 35 seats in the House and five in the Senate. They can now claim a majority in each house on many abortion-related questions. And at least five of the most ardent of the newly elected abortion foes are women, blurring the battle lines of gender for the first time. "Their agenda is very clear. First, Newt Gingrich's hundred days; now, it's Pat Robertson's hundred days," said Democrat Nita Lowey of New York, who heads the House women's caucus...
Initially AbFab was a tough sell even to the famously open-minded BBC. Producer Jon Plowman recalls a BBC development executive viewing the show and remarking, "I don't think women being drunk is funny." According to Plowman, AbFab made it on the air thanks to the ardent support of a secretary to the BBC's head of entertainment. She enjoyed the show and taped it for all her friends, who quickly became fans. It emboldened the network to take the risk...
...dislike many pop-culture products, although probably not the ones that bother Senator Dole. But the fact is, no system of regulation or voluntary restraint is going to have much effect on mass entertainment. And I'd like to hear how Dole squares his antiviolence stand with his ardent support for the n.r.a. and the overturning of the assault-weapons ban. Guns don't kill people; rap music kills people? Oliver Stone movies kill people? Please...
...Bush is bemused by a few of the people cheering him. He is a little uncomfortable with praise from the New York Times, and he distances himself from House Democrats ardent for gun restrictions. "I've got to be careful about who I get in bed with," he said last week, chuckling. "I got a call telling me that the Democratic Senate Conference had given me a round of applause...