Word: aspens
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...point of all these metaphors, of course, is to prove that the community of the politically obsessed is regular guys and gals, who care more about a Jerry Rice catch or a Pippen-to-Jordan jam than the latest tracking poll or Aspen Institute Seminar. But voters are not fools; when they hear a talking head spout one of these lame efforts, they respond like an assembly of eighth-graders listening to an assistant principal quoting Beavis and Butt-head. They turn...
...effects of marriage breakdowns on women and children have sparked the current bipartisan movement to shore up the institution of marriage and put the fault back in divorce. Two weeks ago, at a conference in Aspen, Colorado, Republican virtuecrat Bill Bennett spoke at a seminar of investors and media executives about the social scourge of divorce. "Don't just look at young black men or at women on welfare," he said. "We've got to look at ourselves. The middle class needs to set an example of standing by your family and your children and your commitments." The Masters...
What Bushnell, 37, presents is a nightmare New York in which the city is actually Los Angeles: men just want to go out with models; women just want to marry moguls; and no one goes anywhere that isn't Aspen or St. Bart's. Her cast of pseudonymously named, boite-hopping subjects includes people like Walden, a corporate lawyer who takes up with a Harvard graduate but refuses to introduce her to his friends because she is not sufficiently well proportioned. Those who win on Planet Candace are beauties like Camilla, 25, a woman who says things like, "Most...
With Diana it's off on a grand trip--a redoubt in the Caribbean, white-water rafting outside Aspen, Colorado, a tour of Disney World. No one questions that Charles loves his kids, but Diana is far more demonstrative, hugging them often or throwing herself into their activities, whether it's shooting the rapids or schussing the slopes. But fun with Mum is a very public affair. She is the most photographed woman in the world, who may call the media before an outing...
...people either because they already have them or do not need them." The Colorado amendment was approved in 1992 by 53.4 percent of the state's voters, but a state court blocked the law from being enforced. The law would have nullified gay-rights ordinances in Denver, Boulder and Aspen and barred any other state or local government from enacting similar laws...