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...Winners RONALD REAGAN Office building, then airport, now aircraft carrier named for Gipper. What next, Illinois? JUDY GARLAND Over the Rainbow named No. 1 song of the century. Drag queens everywhere rejoice WHITNEY HOUSTON Pop diva's pot record in Hawaii gets wiped clean. Run for Governor in the works...
...drown the roots of those liberated notions. The Asia of the second half of the 20th century was a fundamentally conservative place, albeit with variations. In the largely Roman Catholic Philippines, men frequently had more than one wife. Few places were as straight-laced as Singapore, but its drag queens thrived. You could be gay in Java - if you liked isolation. "Homosexuality is tolerated in Indonesia," says Dede Oetomo, an anthropologist at Surabaya's Airlangga University, "as long as it's not in one's family." Well, that ruled out everyone but gay test tube babies...
...extended the bar's lease from September to April, but says he simply cannot drag it out any longer...
...economy, and the Asian flu of 1997 and how it could be a whole lot worse this time around. Japan, despite a decade of slow descent, is still the world's second biggest economy, and besides that the biggest foreign owner of U.S. Treasury bills. If falling Japanese stocks drag down the Japanese banks that - amazingly - use those very stocks as collateral, they might have to start selling. All those Treasuries hit the market, U.S. interest rates hit the roof - a familiar worry, but this year? Sayonara slowdown, hello recession...
...Then, at last, at the end you come to an apparently original piece called "Gender-Bending Hyjinx," starring Lovey, a full-figured redhead who goes ga-ga over her friend's "cross-dressing glam-rock boyfriend." She convinces her aesthete boyfriend to go drag, and revolting "hyjinx," involving strap-ons and vomit, ensue. It's classic Bagge: dirty, unapologetic, satiric and extremely funny...