Word: clubbings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...living in slacks," says Joanne West, 42, a suburban housewife. "I was in desperate need of dressing up." Now every weekend she and her husband head downtown to Chicago's new club, Karl's Satin Doll, for an elegant evening. "We were falling into the couch-potato thing," she says, "but this has helped us get up and out." So even a sofa spud can be a sentimentalist at heart...
...took me 15 years to get to the first Series," says America's designated hitter. "Now I wouldn't know what else to do in October." Still, he admits to feeling just a twinge of sorrow. "Especially in a championship year, you get close to the guys on your club. It's tough to move on." Not as tough as moving out, of course. And it helps to leave behind a little bit of yourself in a few of the younger players...
KEITH RICHARDS: TALK IS CHEAP (Virgin). From the shaking dance-club tune Big Enough to the sinuous Locked Away, Keith Richards' first solo album is a gas. Surprise: the hardest rolling Stone is a take-charge songwriter. Who needs Mick...
...orgy of anti-Bush preppie bashing. The most quoted line, delivered by Ann Richards in her keynote speech, was that Bush was born "with a silver foot in his mouth." The best lines came from Texas agriculture commissioner Jim Hightower, depicting a gathering of Bushmen around the yacht-club bar, "sipping a delightfully fruity and frisky white wine, saying 'Play it again, George!' " This was not random abuse but an effort to energize voters who expect Democrats to look out for the little guy -- a venerable Democratic tactic, handed down from Franklin D. Roosevelt (himself an aristocrat...
...days, the seven bankers and financiers had been pampered and toasted at a posh country club near Tampa. Invited to celebrate the wedding of two business associates named Kathleen Erickson and Robert Musella, the men were in especially high spirits by the eve of the ceremony. Rolling into Tampa in a fleet of Lincolns, headed for a stag party, they anticipated a night to remember -- and that is what they got. Arriving at the party site, they were greeted by armed U.S. Customs agents. "Welcome to Tampa," said one. "You're under arrest...