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...still a frequent user of drugs. He even took some painkillers from a member of the audience, which he drank down with one of the many Corona beers he consumed during his performance. In fact, Lee's campaign platform calls for the legalization of drugs. He praised some Florida residents he had recently met who wore T-shirts with the slogan, "Save the Bales...
Although fewer students head to South Padre--police say they expect 100,000 on the island this year--than Ft. Lauderdale, the island is not without its rowdiness. "One time last year, I walked outside, and some kids started chucking Corona bottles down from the balcony at me," says Fittipodi. "The saying down here is 'shit happens...
Gore is a combination of St. Alban's polish and down-home charm, Harvard intellectualism and backwoods shrewdness. He is almost as at home wearing pointy cowboy boots as clunky wing tips, drinking Corona beer in a rowdy bar as sipping Chablis in a Georgetown salon. But not quite. Now, in an effort to reposition himself, Gore the cerebral technocrat is coming on like a fiery champion of "working men and women." His problem is making the transformation credible. On the stump, he attempts to heighten emotions simply by raising the volume of his voice. Though he has fought...
This equalizing effect occurs because television most rewards not words or achievements but coronas of personality. Ted Koppel often seems more knowledgeable than the experts he questions, and George Will triumphantly bolder than Cabinet members who, unlike him, must bear policy responsibility for what they say. It took another corona of personality, Ronald Reagan, to reduce the dominance of the Washington scene by television journalists. He did it, this experienced actor, by disdaining the press and carefully controlling his public appearances. And he did it negatively by subjecting reporters to the humiliation of shouting questions over the helicopter's roar...
...astounding growth of Corona Extra beer, a Mexico City brew with a cult following that has made it the No. 2 imported brand in the U.S., apparently has provoked envious wholesalers of rival brands to resort to some below-the- beer-belly tactics. Last week one of Corona's U.S. importers, Barton Beers, revealed that suds fans in the West and Midwest have been shaken by a rumor that the brand is contaminated with urine. Barton's managers thought they had stopped up the source of the malicious tale last month, when they settled a suit against a Reno-based...