Word: clubbing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pushing his good-neighbor policy beyond the gates of the Country Club. He has provided scholarships to Baton Rouge students (and $25,000 to the local Boy Scouts), given equipment to schools and handed out Thanksgiving turkeys and winter coats. He has also given talks on the importance of staying in school and avoiding drugs and violence...
Suburban living doesn't get much better than the Country Club of Louisiana, a steel-gated, pool-dappled subdivision on the outskirts of Baton Rouge. Houses cost from $300,000 to $3 million. There is a lovely golf and tennis club with a spacious veranda meant to re-create the look of a Louisiana plantation. But denizens were somewhat unnerved last year to learn that five of the leading gangsta rappers in the world had moved in: Master P, C-Murder, Silkk the Shocker, Mystikal and Snoop Dogg...
...however, they have been denied membership at the golf club at the Country Club of Louisiana. The reason? "It's just plain racism," says No Limit's general counsel, Edwin Hawkins. "What other reason could it be?" (The golf club has other African-American members.) Hawkins says the chilly reception has extended to everything from the "300% premiums" they are being charged to build their new recording studio to a flurry of business-related lawsuits against them. "We don't feel," he says, "that we have been received as citizens of the community...
...best spot to blend in with the locals and quaff a brew. If Hillary is looking for a light bite, Angel's Heavenly Hamburgers (3) already has a sandwich named after her. It's a hard roll with lots of baloney. Bill can tee off at the country club (4), but buying cigars at the Havana Trading Co. (5) could be politically sensitive, and the town has--horrors!--no McDonald's. Chelsea can pop into Hairtique (6) or Yankee Clipper (7) for a new do, or she can water-ski on Skaneateles' finger lake (8)--supposedly the cleanest...
...Samson and Delilah and The Robe; in San Diego County, Calif. "Mr. Beautiful" got his big break in 1940, after a brief appearance in The Housekeeper's Daughter generated 20,000 fan letters. But he didn't take himself too seriously. "I'm no actor," he told a country club that rejected him because of his profession. "And I have 70 movies to prove...