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...Seventh Avenue by calling their social clubs houses and holding annual balls that featured the dance style. Voguers from clubs like the House of Dupree practiced their steps in downtown discos, spreading the craze. Myra Christopher, a salesclerk in designer Patricia Field's New York City boutique, helped vogueing flourish after she went to a ball in the winter of 1987. Says she: "Here were these kids getting prizes and trophies for things they get made fun of for in the real world." She persuaded her boss to start a vogueing group called the House of Field...
...legendary Democrat bashing. In 1984 Gingrich enraged then Speaker Tip O'Neill by vehemently accusing Democratic lawmakers of blindness to the Communist threat. It was Gingrich who fomented the House Ethics Committee's investigation of O'Neill's successor, Jim Wright of Texas. In a characteristically antagonistic oratorical flourish, Gingrich accused Wright, as well as other Democratic leaders, of having a "Mussolini-like...
...cattle four years ago, and last January the E.C. banned imports of meat treated with hormones. But adding antibiotics to feed may pose an even greater threat. For years the drugs have been losing their punch against bacterial infections in humans. One explanation: the bacteria that normally flourish in the guts of farm animals are developing immunity to the antibiotics. And these new strains of superbugs are being passed on to people in the meat they eat. Charges Bradley Miller, director of the Humane Farming Association: "The livestock industry is squandering our medical miracles." Though ranchers challenge such claims...
...social consequences of overturning Roe would be lamentable. But the political consequences would ultimately be just as significant because abortion would become a political rather than a judicial issue. In an America without Roe, the Republicans, the party that pursued the anti-abortion cause, will either flourish or perish...
...painter based in British Columbia, "as far away from Toronto as I could get without drowning." Only a retrospective of her works lures her back. But the praise of young feminists seems ignorant or condescending, and the town's gleaming new facades have an even worse effect. "Underneath the flourish and ostentation," she decides, "is the old city . . . malicious, grudging, vindictive, implacable. In my dreams of this city I am always lost...