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...woman who comes along''.) As for Ted Danson, he's still dealing with the fallout from a rare stab at stand-up comedy. Appearing at a Friars Club roast for his lover, Whoopi Goldberg, Danson wore blackface makeup, made crude jokes about their sex life and freely used a common derogatory word for black people. New York City Mayor David Dinkins was offended, and talk-show host Montel Williams resigned from the Friars Club in protest. But Goldberg stood by her man, saying she helped write the material herself. ''We were not trying to be politically correct,'' she said...
...sell and buy back assets. Just last week TCI said it would reacquire Liberty Media and its cable networks, including the Family Channel and Black Entertainment Television, which Malone spun off in 1991 to avoid antitrust scrutiny. While Smith and Malone worked in different industries, they shared a common vision of the interactive future. The two men began meeting three years ago at telecommunications conferences, at a time when cable firms and telephone companies were thought to be rivals in the race to build the information highway. ''We discovered that there was no debate,'' Smith says. ''We really...
...getting hurt.'' Anti-Reagan forces mean to get still rougher. And Manion is the next target. Last month a last-ditch Republican effort narrowly succeeded in getting his nomination released by the judiciary committee ''without a recommendation.'' The committee, however, is preparing a report on Manion's qualifications, a common practice only for Supreme Court nominees. Calling him ''deficient,'' the draft bemoans the spelling and grammatical errors in his legal briefs. It also faults his lack of experience in federal courts. (Among the cases Manion cited as his most significant were such unmomentous disputes as one in which he defended...
...found one Chinese curled up, lying facedown. He had a head wound shaped like a perfect pie-cut that exposed his brain. I fired into his midriff. He turned slowly and looked at me as if saying, 'Why must you make me suffer more?' Although it remained a common practice on both sides, I never again killed another wounded Chinese soldier.'' An even greater enemy than the Chinese was the demoralizing cold during the late fall and early winter of 1950, when temperatures dipped down to 30 degrees below zero. Sweaty feet in wet boots froze instantly; food supplies were...
Striking up conversations is not something I have observed to be a common practice on the Tokyo metro, but occasionally I find myself making friends. Sometimes kind people will stop to offer me directions when they notice me standing still and staring at signs. A college student woke me up one morning to make sure that I did not miss my stop. And a trendy man once inquired if I might be able to help him fix the buckle on his cowboy boot...