Word: box
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...follow everything she said because she talks quickly, only uses first names, knows a lot more about Democratic politics than I do and doesn't button her shirt all the way up. But I did catch that during the last Democratic Convention, she did a lot of box-hopping. "I was in Ron Burkle's box explaining to Andre 3000 how the convention works and who Jimmy Carter was," she said. I imagine there was also a part of the convention when Ron Burkle explained to Andre 3000 and Jimmy Carter who Heather Thomas was. In fact, I'm guessing...
...model, not after a decade in the spotlight. These days, does anyone wanna be Madonna? Does anyone even wanna see Madonna? Not on the movie screen. Body of Evidence, in which she played a woman accused of killing her lover with sex, earned just $14 million at the U.S. box office, less than her 1991 documentary Truth or Dare. Sales of Madonna albums have also had diminishing returns; the latest, Erotica, has sold about 2 million in the U.S., down from Like a Virgin's 7 million. Sex, her notorious $50 diary and sado-catechism, enjoyed a frenetic first...
...like Bessie Smith. But like her mother, the author is too polite to shout, and too honest to fake it. The story of Lena and Gail can be measured in privilege and recognition; what remains incalculable is the withholding tax that both women are still paying for their lives. BOX: Excerpt ''Lena was mad about her husband. As a high school dropout addicted to the movies, she saw him as the rather unlikely combination of her three favorite stars: Noel Coward, Leslie Howard, and George Raft. Unfortunately, Louis was somewhat less sophisticated than Lena's idols. He had, for example...
...sector has soared. The trend will continue. The U.S. Department of Labor has projected that between 1984 and 1995 the economy will add 16 million new jobs. Almost 90% of them will be in services, even though in that sector there are growing signs of new overseas competition (see box). Those American blue-collar workers who hold on to their jobs, however, will continue to be among the world's wealthiest, with average manufacturing compensation of $12.97 an hour, vs. $1.45 in Taiwan and $1.28 in Brazil. To many labor leaders, industrial scholars and worried politicians, the blue-collar decline...
...ramshackle old gold-rush boomtown made cheerful and shiny for tourists. Juneau, a brisk, up- all-night little city of 30,000, is the place to visit the Red Dog Saloon at twilight, which falls somewhere around midnight, and see the St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Church, a tiny jewel box built in 1894. It is also a place to catch the scent of fear among businessmen who depend on boomtown prosperity. Alaska's oil boom has busted, but tourism may bail everyone out. Twenty-five ship tours are headed for southeast Alaska this summer, some of them run by firms...