Word: fellow
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Unlike a certain fellow actor turned politician, Eastwood has had a pretty good year. Of course, the scale of his achievements is a tad more modest. Eastwood pushed for a new parking lot to ease congestion during the annual plague of tourists, and he has allowed a local shop to sell ice-cream cones, a commodity the previous regime restricted. Says Mike Lajigian, who owns Chocolate Dreams and dispenses 22 flavors at $1.50 and up: "He's cut through the bureaucracy and still maintained the integrity of the village...
...know that our fellow Alann Steen is dying." The speaker on the videotape was Jesse Turner, one of four Beirut University instructors taken hostage in January by a pro-Iranian Shi'ite faction known as the Islamic Jihad for the Liberation of Palestine. He was referring to a communique from the group earlier last week announcing that Steen, another of the four, was gravely ill. A doctor who had examined Steen, said Turner, reported that he was suffering a "crisis in his blood pressure," with symptoms that included headaches and difficulty in breathing. The original message warned that the captive...
Then there was the fellow from Mark Twain's Hannibal, Congressman Harold Volkmer, who was part of the entourage even though he is a Democrat. The effect was to subdue even Margot Patterson, president of the local Democratic club. Said she: "I don't blame ((Reagan)) for coming to Boone County. We have a top-notch school system here...
...before a line of spring-break beauties, who beamed and clapped in approval. Consensus on the flutter factor: 8 or 9, which is pretty amazing for someone who justifiably rated his hunk index at 0 a year ago. Even the college guys hooted and howled in agreement. An older fellow, Philip Finn, who was on vacation from Plains, Pa., was also awed, but confided to me, "What I'm interested in watching is whether he keeps it off." So am I. Then again, I wonder if Remar will become too thin, too rich, too famous? Hmm, Mom, any advice...
First it was Oral Roberts, announcing that God would take his life if backers did not send in millions. Then came Jim Bakker, admitting he paid heavy "blackmail" to cover up sexual sin. As fellow TV Stars Jimmy Swaggart and Jerry Falwell joined the controversy, a bystander, Pat Robertson, stood to lose the most from the Evangelicals' questionable deeds. See RELIGION...