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...most of us play right along. If all we really wanted was to be left alone, explain the lasting popularity of Oprah and Sally and Ricki tell-all TV. Memoirs top the best-seller lists, with books about incest and insanity and illness leading the way. Perfect strangers at cocktail parties tell me the most disturbing details of their abusive upbringings...
WASHINGTON: Call it the revenge of the weeds. An environmental report released yesterday shows Americans living in rural areas -- particularly the Midwestern corn belt -- are getting a cocktail of farm chemicals when they drink tap water. The chemicals found in the study could drastically increase cancer risks...
...overall: trying to package the story for general tastes, it hardly concerns itself with what's actually inside. Perhaps the most interesting element of Kate's life, as the camera captures it, is her enviably well-stocked wardrobe, which expands into a seemingly endless array of power suits and cocktail dresses. All part of the packaging--too bad there's so little underneath...
...savories designed to keep the cast and crew pleasantly satisfied in the six-hour gaps between meal times. There were bowls of dark red cherries and bright nectarines, boxes of pastries and muffins, bagels and lox, fresh blended fruit smoothies. Then came the mid-morning snack--perhaps shrimp cocktail, buffalo wings, fried jalapenos, mozzarella, basil and roasted pepper sandwiches. And that was all before lunch...
...much like a Salvation Army initiative for royal comfort. But bargain shoppers are unlikely to shell out the $200,000 paid for a midnight blue velvet number worn while dancing with John Travolta at a White House reception. Or $65,000 for the so-called "Up Yours" short black cocktail dress worn the night Prince Charles admitted his infidelity to TV viewers. For turning the tacky into the touching, Diana still boasts a public personna with which few can compare. Buckingham Palace, take note...