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Smarmiest Denial He didn't do it, he didn't do it -- O.K., so maybe he did it. But Washington Mayor Marion Barry did not fess up to a cocaine problem until he was convicted on a misdemeanor charge of possession. Even then, Barry's contrition was about as deep as a one-snort line of cocaine...
Okay, I'll fess up. Last September, it was me who wrote an article in these pages entitled "Redskins, I Can Hail Thee No Longer." Citing Redskins support for Oliver North and and Gibbs' opposition to the Last Temptation of Christ, I wrote that I was "losing my allegiance to the team of my youth." In my most shameful moment, I even lambasted the team for failing to make the playoffs...
...British Museum. "We are all emotionally involved with fakes; nobody wishes to be associated with them," the museum's director, Sir David Wilson, sagaciously remarks in the catalog. "Fortunately, most of the worst errors are our own, the result of nearly 2 1/2 centuries of collecting." The reluctance to fess up may account for the absence from this show of some of the real lulus of American public collections, such as the fake Etruscan warriors that until some 30 years ago were star exhibits at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City...
...PORTEX. Fess up: a lot of what's so cool about personal computers -- their speed, their unforgiving accuracy -- is also what's so daunting. Here is an especially slick and simple piece of software that doesn't stint on wizardry and exudes a comforting, almost cozy familiarity. It turns any IBM or compatible machine (sorry, not Apple) into a fully functioning appointment calendar and phone directory -- a Filofax on a monitor. Yuppie nirvana! But wait. Lots of software can do similar stunts. Portex actually prints out addresses and lunch dates on supplied paper that fits snugly into a Filofax diary...
Attention, raccoons: head for the hills! Not since the 1950s, when Fess Parker sported a coonskin cap on the TV show Davy Crockett, have the long-tailed hats been so popular. Manhattan-based Jack Seifter and Sons, the largest U.S. manufacturer of the caps, has seen sales double in the past several months. During 1988 the company sold 500 of the authentic caps (retail price: $100) and 10,000 versions made with fake fur or rabbit pelt and a real ringtail...