Word: barney
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...THIS NECESSARY? The rich are more paranoid than the rest of us, which may be why Barney's department store in New York City is selling a $595 coat, left, equipped with a pocket lined with a copper-polyamide-polyurethane shield that protects the owner from harmful cellular-phone emissions. It may also explain why clients of Meurice Dry Cleaners (also in New York) can FedEx their clothes from anywhere in the world so Meurice can clean and FedEx them right back. Cost to send and clean a suede jacket? About $150. (The service has clients as far away...
Impressive, but not unique. Some of the No. 1 hits of the past were also pretty good, and perhaps even better than Seinfeld. The Andy Griffith Show, for example, achieved comedic moments of unmatched beauty. These usually came in the loping conversations between Andy and Barney in the sheriff's office, exchanges with a slow pace and subdued hilarity that would be impossible to offer on television today. Others would cite All in the Family or Cheers or Cosby as series that were more skillful and enjoyable than Seinfeld. And while Seinfeld should be credited for going...
Richard G. Schneider, who publishes the nonprofit quarterly from his home in Boston, started the Review five years ago as a forum for gay and lesbian scholarship. The Review has garnered a national reputation and attracted contributors from Rep. Barney Frank '61-'62 (D-Mass.) to Camille Paglia...
...building White House wasn't much fun. Any impeachment effort that was not bipartisan would amount to a suicide mission. The G.O.P. lacks the votes as well as the stomach to do it alone, and the House judiciary panel is hopelessly divided by party and ideology: Bob Barr vs. Barney Frank sounds like a special weeklong edition of Crossfire, not a constitutional crisis. Senate Republican Arlen Specter came right out and drew the line: "Unless there is an open-and-shut case, the kind which would result in a resignation, as happened with President Nixon, I do not think there...
Massachusetts is one of the most progressive states in the nation on gay rights, thanks to gay leaders like Rep. Barney E. Frank '61-62 and straight ones like former Gov. William F. Weld '66. One of the most encouraging trends here is the growth of gay-straight alliances in high schools. In dozens of schools throughout the state, students of all sexual orientations are working together to lobby their schools and educate their peers. These alliances are the wave of the future...