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...week there were celebrations, formal and informal, public and private, to mark O'Connor's triumph. Senator Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, who guided the confirmation vote from his position as chairman of the Judiciary Committee, gave a candlelit dinner in her honor at a Pakistani restaurant. In marked contrast to the spicy food in front of them, Nancy Thurmond, the Senator's wife, offered a dulcet toast to O'Connor as "the best thing to come down the pike since Girl Scout cookies." On Thursday, at a ceremony in the Rose Garden honoring federal district...
...pointed out in the October Washingtonian magazine. Prince George's County, Md., may soon provide "the purest test in the area of the ability of blacks and whites to live together." Such facets of Washington life are not the concern of Washington haters, who concentrate their fury on candlelit Georgetown and rich but modest Cleveland Park. Yet their grievances about Washington run far deeper than this. And not all have to do with the meddlesome...
...tourists could not find much to say about night life in the capital. The restaurants close at 11 p.m. The hotels offer a tour entitled "Moscow after Dark," which suggests the Muscovite equivalent of Paris' Crazy Horse Saloon or perhaps Uzbeks leaping to the ceiling in a gloomy candlelit cavern. But the trip turned out, in fact, to be the same as the "Morning Tour." In both cases, the Intourist guide begins: "Moscow is the largest city in the U.S.S.R...
...Around a candlelit table on Washington's Prospect Street one night not long ago, Bill Ruckelshaus, the former Deputy Attorney General, now senior vice president of Weyerhaeuser Co., gathered with old friends. Eyes shone bright. Could he, would he? No, no, he protested. But there might have been a waver in his voice...
...them in touch with the departed spirit. A dog's howl seems to him a sign that he has been heard, though a more objective observer might imagine the hound to be the world's first furry movie critic. A little later there is a candlelit attempt to summon Dean via ouija board, which spills over into a raid on a lover's lane to frighten non believing neckers into joining the mourning. The girl who most deeply shares Jimmy J.'s excessive regard for Dean is horribly burned when the candle she is carrying ignites...