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...performer, Robertson is capable of giving a thoroughly reasoned admonition against the dangers of huge budget deficits, as he did last week in Iowa. But no matter what his topic, his speech is laced with religious allusions; he has a preacher's habit of stretching out words (free-dom, A-mer-i-ca) for emphasis. Though he smiles brightly and often, even when the smile is out of sync with the tone of his words, he taps what he describes as "a rage and frustration building up in - certain quarters of this country." As with Jackson, there is still...
...while notching a worthy stage career on Broadway (Hurlyburly) and in regional theater, Weaver has been placed in the cluttered corners of raucous comedies starring Saturday Night Live alumni (Ghostbusters, Deal of the Century) or at the cores of enigmatic dramas (Eyewitness, The Year of Living Dangerously). She is Dom Perignon in a town built to sell Dr Pepper. And she is too darn tall...
...same is true throughout Europe. A Hermes silk scarf is $70 in Paris, $100 in New York City; a bottle of Dom Perignon 1976 is $23 in Paris, $41 in New York. At the Giorgio Armani boutique on Milan's Via Sant' Andrea, a smartly cut black leather jacket is $600, half the price in New York. At Zeiss Optical in Munich, a pair of binoculars costs $815, vs. $1,140. Says Miami Travel Agency Owner Constanza DeFelice: "I even bought two Cabbage Patch dolls in a Madrid department store for less than $20 apiece." "Our tour conductors take people...
...Dom's Italian Restaurant in Cambridge, neatness and tastefulness are the important criteria. "An applicant for a position in the dining room must be very neatly groomed--his clothes, his shoes, his hands, his hair," says owner Dom A Capossela. What kind of clothing an applicant wears isn't so important, out "it must be tasteful and stylish...
...movie. By the time Ngor escaped from Cambodia in 1979, after four years of torture and forced labor, his entire family, as well as his fiancee, had been murdered by the Communists. Or so he thought, until he was promoting the movie in Europe and received a message from Dom Ponn Many, a niece he had last seen in Phnom-Penh ten years ago. Now living in France with her husband and four children, she had read an article about the film and recognized her uncle. At an emotional airport meeting in Cannes, Ngor saw her children for the first...