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MOMENT MOST LIKE A JERRY LEWIS TELETHON. Garrison Keillor of Lake Wobegon (where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average) gave a syrupy rendition of The Star-Spangled Banner, complete with children, adorable on cue...
Taking its cue from Gorbachev, the Presidium vetoed Nagorno-Karabakh's decision to leave Azerbaijan. Then, in the first action of its kind under Gorbachev, the legislative body stripped Soviet citizenship from Paruyr Ayrikyan, a leading Armenian dissident who has been jailed since March for fomenting unrest, and ordered him to be expelled from the country. His destination is not yet known...
THEY predicted that the South would rise again. Who would have thought that a liberal-easterner would have been the one to bring the South back to prominence. But it's pretty obvious that the Democrats, following Democratic presidential nominee Gov. Michael S. Dukakis' cue, went after the Southern vote. After viewing the Democratic convention, it would only make sense for the Republicans to follow the Democrats in wooing the South...
WELL, while others who shelled out anywhere from $2000 for ringside seats in Atlantic City to $30 for special pay-per-view arrangements shook their heads in disgust after the 10-count ended, Haupt took a cue from P.T. Barnum. If Tyson could make $22 million and Spinks $13 million for 91 seconds of "boxing," then why can't Dan Haupt of Overland Park, Kansas, take a stab at the champ for $3.5 million...
...most faithful in attending thrice-weekly after-hours classes held at Martin Luther King Jr. High School. On a recent afternoon, he was at the blackboard trying to figure out fractions. "Which one is the numerator?" the teacher asked. He pointed to it and then, on cue, to the dividend, the quotient, the remainder, the divisor, the denominator. His fellow cast members gazed intently at the blackboard chalked full of figures. On the wall was a poster from another Broadway play, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/ When the Rainbow Is Enuf...