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...number of p.r. firms, lobbyists and pundits increases exponentially. What is the modern art of damage control, after all, but putting on a false front? What is spinning but massaging the truth? Inside the Beltway, the scandal is not the lie but the unvarnished truth. George Bush's campaign barb about Reaganism being voodoo economics raised far more hackles than his claim that Clarence Thomas was the most qualified man in America to be on the Supreme Court...
...dreadful. And need I bring up First Kid? (I thought I needn?t.) I admit freely that it bothered me when Xander Berkeley turned traitor in Air Force One (although he?s an underrated character actor who was the best non-silicon-based thing in the Pamela Anderson vehicle Barb Wire). So if we can believe what we hear -- that you?d rather see Janet Reno naked than testify before Ken Starr?s grand jury or any other -- America, I think, applauds your discretion/humility. You just weren?t meant for stardom...
While teammate Ivy Wang--the Crimson's top singles player--was sidelined with an injury, co-captain Gabriela Hricko had success on the singles side with an impressive fourth-place finish which included a 6-3, 6-3 win over the tournament's top seed, Barb Privel of Boston College...
...never stopped. From the Catskills to the Palladium in London, from Atlantic City to Las Vegas, Youngman's modus operandi didn't change: barrage audiences with one-liner after one-liner, barb upon barb; saw out a few notes on his violin, then more jokes, always more jokes. He continued to use his trademark line long after his wife was taken in 1987 -- comedy is comedy, after...
Bono was the straight man on "The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour" in the early '70s, hangdog with his droopy mustache and bell-bottoms, dwarfed by his barb-tongued wife. As a songwriter, he wrote "Needles and Pins," "The Beat Goes On" and "I Got You, Babe." He was elected mayor of Palm Springs six years after his show went off the year. And six years after that he was elected congressman, swept into office by the Republican revolution, by a decent record as mayor and probably by a good dose of nostalgia for those innocent days before disco...