Word: binge
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some of the staff have left of their own volition. Alan Fisher was hired as a palace butler after having served in that capacity for Bing Crosby. "They are wonderful people," says Fisher, who left in 1984, "but incredibly boring." Stephen Barry, Charles' valet of twelve years, left to write what was billed as a tell-all book about his years with the prince. The book, Royal Service, disproved the adage that no man is a hero to his valet by depicting Charles as a cross between Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Bertrand Russell...
...little nervous after those first two curves," DiCesare remembered later. "Bing, bang, two strikes...
...vintage items from the portfolio of Bowie's pal Iggy Pop; one is a nifty old Leiber and Stoller tune; and another is an unlikely remake of Brian Wilson and Tony Asher's Beach Boys classic God Only Knows, on which Bowie starts out sounding like Bing Crosby crooning from deep inside Plato's cave. But underneath all the precision production and the surgically assured musicianship are messages of lyrical turbulence, full of fleet, elusive imagery that hangs in the air like a haunting. As the album's last song, Dancing with the Big Boys, reminds...
...mention sexually audacious? by Chinese standards. Last year, according to Chinese press reports, 700 of the 800 pupils at a Shanghai high school enjoyed subscriptions to Story, a tabloid filled with teasing tales of lechery and lust. Feng Bing, 17, a typical teenage inmate in a Shanghai reform school, told a visitor that he was committed to the institute for watching foreign movies. Later, his principal disclosed that Feng was actually found guilty of seducing twelve-year-old girls. Even premarital and unorthodox sex have come out into the open. "Many of the abortions we perform are on unmarried girls...
Former President Gerald Ford, 70, whose life seems to be dogged by minor mishaps, has a knack for turning even the genteel game of golf into a hazardous sport. At the Bing Crosby National Pro-Am tournament in Pebble Beach, Calif., all was going well for Ford and his partner, Jack Nicklaus, 44, until they reached the 15th tee. There, Ford hooked a shot that traveled 90 yards and bopped a woman spectator squarely on the head. The unlucky lady was knocked down, and Ford's round was delayed for 30 minutes as medics administered sympathy and stitches. Ford...