Word: carolina
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...contrast, Les Enfants Terribles (subtitled Children of the Game)--which premiered last spring at the Spoleto Festival USA in Charleston, South Carolina, and was staged last month at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York City--uses the medium of dance to make its point. Cocteau's 1929 novel, which he transformed into a 1950 movie, was a typically neurasthenic tale of the unhealthy relationship of Paul and Lise, siblings whose excessive attachment to each other eventually destroys them. At once precious and oblique, the story could easily seem ridiculous today...
Clinton and Bowles met four years ago, when Bowles volunteered himself to the campaign the day Clinton lost the Connecticut primary. Bowles soon became a heavyweight fund raiser in North Carolina, where he was a successful investment banker. He had been to Washington only a couple of times in his life before he moved up in 1993 to take over the dispirited, endangered Small Business Administration. His wife, textile magnate Crandall Close Bowles, stayed behind in Charlotte with their three children, which left Bowles with little better to do than spend 15 hours a day at the office. He invited...
...whites ready to declare that the war against racism has been won when fresh evidence that it is alive and well pops up all the time? Even as Texaco was scrambling to repair its image last week, Avis was sued for refusing to serve blacks in North and South Carolina...
...Dole campaign had all but given up on North Carolina, but Dick Armey was still there fighting for the doomed campaign of G.O.P. freshman David Funderburk. "There's no Republican I know who dares tell the truth about the Clinton Administration," he growled to several dozen of the Republican faithful who had gathered for a Funderburk fund raiser at a Durham-area country club. "If we tell the truth, we're considered meanspirited...
They talked about sex, torture and death, but never face to face. Robert Glass and Sharon Lopatka were intimate strangers, communicating over the Internet, she as "Nancy" from Hampstead, Maryland, he as "Slowhand" from his trailer outside Lenoir, North Carolina. Then the pair decided to meet. Lopatka boarded a train Oct. 13 for North Carolina. Her family never saw her alive again...