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Best known for his keyboarding in the now-defunct band The Tubes, Welnick is starting to get adjusted to his new role working on the world's top-grossing concert attraction...
...pompous and absurd as Feinstein says, and somehow it is not startling to hear that the parents of young French Open winner Michael Chang are widely unloved. But there's more to world-class tennis than posturers and connivers, and Feinstein, who covered tennis for the recently defunct sports daily, the National, misses the the joy of the game almost completely...
...problem is with the other 11, relegated to what might be called LFN, or least-favored-nation status. They were all connected with the now defunct Soviet bloc, and they have been discriminated against for reasons that have nothing to do with economics and everything to do with ideology. The U.S. didn't like their political systems, and the denial of MFN was intended to force them to change...
...theme lies there. The boomers are a culture of siblings. Their fathers are all dead. The '60s taught that the authority of fathers (Lyndon Johnson, the Pentagon, the university, every institution) was defunct. The boomers functioned as siblings without fathers. Is it the case that now, like Bly, they are looking for the vanished father in themselves...
...weeks. In a blatant bid for publicity and newsstand sales, the magazine faxed dozens of advance copies to mainstream journalists. The cover line referred to "outing" the official, a ( gay neologism for exposure of a homosexual by other homosexuals. The author, Michelangelo Signorile, pioneered the tactic in the defunct New York City gay magazine, OutWeek...