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...Georgia Democrat Zell Miller, who has a very conservative voting record, has been considered a possibility for defection, but at this point he looks like a very distant possibility. Miller testily and adamantly denies he has any interest in switching sides...
...know, a 'You're from Texas, therefore,' attitude that I didn't find very appealing." In other words, Bush felt dismissed as a dumb Texan, and he resented it. Some readers might find the idea a little absurd that someone who counts the Queen of England as a distant relation and whose family is the epitome of the blue blood upper class could feel discriminated against at Yale. But there you have it. "As a matter of fact," Bush continued in the minivan, "I still believe that just because somebody's got an Ivy League title by their name doesn...
...fruit the way Chen did when he was a boy. They still go swimming in the creek and roast water chestnuts on charcoal braziers. When Chen was growing up here during the 1950s, Taiwan was still struggling for survival; today's grandiose notion of cultural identity was a distant luxury. While the newly arrived leaders of the Kuomintang, freshly landed from the mainland, were building their capital in Taipei, for the native Taiwanese, descendants mostly of Fujian and Guangdong natives who settled during the 17th century, life was hardscrabble. What kids like A-Bian dreamed about was a full stomach...
...Sound of Paste," the shockwaves of a man's spilled toothpaste devastate a distant planet, revolutionizing its social order, while he goes to sleep with clean teeth. "Fishin' Trip" has two fisherman pals part ways when one enters into satorial oneness with the universe while the other catches an incredible amount of fish. "That Johnny's missing out," says the lucky angler...
...decade when Hollywood directors first traveled to distant climes, hoping to bring a foreign flavor to their pictures. Of the '50s' ten Oscar winners, five - "An American in Paris," "Around the World in Eighty Days," "The Bridge on the River Kwai," "Gigi" and "Ben-Hur" - were shot abroad. Remember too that Marilyn and Jayne weren't the only sex symbols crashing in the '50s; it was also the time of Sophia Loren, Gina Lollobrigida, Brigitte Bardot. And the movies' all-time entrancer, an Anglo-Dutch princess named Edda Kathleen van Heemstra Hepburn-Ruston - Audrey Hepburn...