Word: barbarae
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...McCartney family spokesman, Geoff Baker, all but confirmed Thursday the PEOPLE Magazine story that Linda McCartney, the 56-year-old wife of former Beatle Sir Paul McCartney, died at the family ranch in Tucson, AZ, and not in Santa Barbara, CA, as reporters initially had been led to believe. Baker said he misled reporters to protect Sir Paul and the couple's four children. "If I had said where she died, [the ranch] would have been overrun straight away, and they needed time, because of their grief," he said. "Morally, I have done nothing wrong, and legally I have done...
...shocked" at what the press wrote about him, so he wanted to explain publicly why he and Andrew Golden, 11, shot up their Arkansas school, killing four classmates and a teacher. So says Tom Furth, the Ohio lawyer hired by the boy's father. Last Friday, ABC's Barbara Walters was prepared to air Mitch Johnson's version of the day of the shooting, as related by Furth, on "20/20." But that afternoon the piece was abruptly dropped...
...lawyers and the media would stop offering these women interviews, instant fame, money and book deals, maybe we could put an end to this and restore dignity to the White House. MARJORIE A. CLAUSEN Santa Barbara, Calif...
Fortunately for Wurtzel, her book comes out at a moment when the culture seems painfully devoid of commanding female troublemakers. Courtney Love is now a chic model/actress, and Sharon Stone has married, in a big peony of a dress, a newspaper boss. We have no brazenly rapacious Barbara Stanwycks or Bette Davises; instead we have Monica Lewinskys and Ally McBeals, women just insecure and pesty. On the bright side, no one will ever make a career out of doing Calista Flockhart in drag...
...America each year. If he makes billions as a result, good luck to him. Will bringing down Microsoft and Gates benefit America? It may soothe the envy of his competitors, but it won't be of long-term benefit to the world. America should celebrate him, not persecute him. BARBARA BANNISTER KwaZulu, South Africa...