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...After 30 years of marriage, I felt like a truss in a drugstore window." You think that's-overstated? Let me tell you what it's like to be a working mother, "racing around the kitchen in a pair of bedroom slippers, trying to quick-thaw a chop under each armpit . . ." Shared responsibilities? "Transporting children is my husband's 26th favorite thing; it comes somewhere between eating lunch in a tearoom and dropping a bowling ball on his foot." Listen, let me tell...
...James Timothy Hoffman, the Government informant who helped orchestrate the video taped hotel-room negotiations in October 1982 that are key to the Government's charges against De Lorean. Defense Lawyer Howard Weitzman, having rattled a previous Government witness, predicted confidently, "I'm going to chop Hoffman up into little pieces...
...Nixon made when he became the first U.S. premier to pay his respects to our One Billion Red brothers, and this week's trip should be replete with pathetic scenes of inter-ideological friendship, numerous pictures of Nancy and Ronald deftly maneuvering their chopsticks over bowls of rice and chop suey, and enough symbolism to make even TV executives retch...
...always recognized. By and large, traditional power has tended to slip from the grasp of special-interest groups. Pulp and paper companies no longer control Maine; Anaconda Copper has long since closed its "hospitality rooms" in Montana's state capital at Helena; Florida's rural "pork chop gang" must now share power with the arroz con polio and corned-beef crowds, and it has been quite a while since anyone has accused U.S. Steel and the Pennsylvania Railroad of manipulating the Keystone State...
...Alderman Roman Pucinski became the eighth of them openly to endorse the Republican. He said he could not ask his present workers to support Washington, who has pledged to abolish the patronage power of the party machine. Said Pucinski: "Why should I give him the guillotine with which to chop off my head?" At one rally in a Democratic neighborhood last week, formerly staunch Democrats serenaded Epton with a campaign song to the tune of Bye Bye Blackbird...