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Noenoelani, kneeling, chants and finger taps the puniu, a small coconut- shell drum lashed to the thigh, and thumps the pahu hula, a larger sharkskin- covered drum. Hauolionalani, leis at wrists and ankles, head erect, chants a formal request -- "Let me in, I'm cold" -- to be admitted to the halau, or dance school. Noenoelani replies as the teacher, "Come in, all I have to offer is my voice . . ." Her daughter begins the rhythmic, liquid swaying of the hula...
...Jackson climbed out of bed, pulled his dark pinstripe trousers up over his knee-high blue socks. He ran a wide comb through his hair. At 45 he has become puffy around the neck and middle. But his tall, erect frame and penetrating gaze are still imposing. His zeal for credibility includes wearing no jewelry or flashy clothes. "People want authenticity," he said. "I'm authentic...
...highly erratic as well as expensive. In 1977 he suddenly announced a push for a worldwide network of missions; months later he abandoned that project and broke ground for what was to become Heritage USA. In 1986 Bakker raised $3 million in the span of a month to erect Kevin's House, an adjacent 14-bedroom home for handicapped children. Today only two youngsters live there, and federal investigators are wondering where the money went. The principal victims were PTL's "Lifetime Partners," an estimated 120,000 heads of households who pledged $1,000 or more in exchange...
Domino's Pizza, the company that cooked up a $2 billion fast-food dynasty by peddling Italian fare, is again looking to Italy for inspiration. Domino's announced last week that as part of its new headquarters complex near Ann Arbor, Mich., it plans to erect a 30-story tower that will lean to the east at a 15 degree angle, much like the Leaning Tower of Pisa...
...clearing his way. One insider claimed that Kennedy reinjured his weakened back during a bedroom tussle at a party in Bing Crosby's Palm Springs, Calif., house, which the President was using in September 1963, thus forcing him to return to a rigid back brace. That brace held him erect in his limousine two months later in Dallas after the first gunshot struck him. The second shot killed the still upright President...