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DIED. DON CLAYTON, 70, miniature-golf king; of internal bleeding; in Fayetteville, North Carolina. He replaced garish windmills and gimmicks with truly difficult greens, turning child's play into a test of skill--and 265 Putt-Putt courses...
...with obstacles. Few states have embraced gambling so wholeheartedly. Since 1992, when the first riverboat casino floated down the Mississippi River to Tunica, the desperately poor county that Jesse Jackson once called "America's Ethiopia," 28 casinos have sprung up from the Tennessee border to the Gulf Coast. These garish palaces employ 27,300 people and last year put $189 million into state and local coffers. "Hey, look, Tom Grey, gaming is working here in Mississippi!" declares host Rip Daniels, welcoming Grey to his talk show on WJZD, Gulfport's Afro-American radio station. Grey cites failed restaurants and increased...
HERE COMES THE BRIDLE Is this a new rule: something garish, something blue? Publicity huntress Ivana Trump wore a pale blue dress when she wed Italian businessman Riccardo Mazzucchelli. But the hat trick was an asymmetrical white voilette by Thierry Mugler. Neigh
Instead, "Othello" features an eclectic gathering of horrible effects. Othello first enters from beneath an electronic Bud Lite sign. The sound, though well-prepared, goes sour when whimsical musical moments and a garish announcement of the Venetian victory accompanied by disco lay waste to Shakespeare's play. Two guards, listed as "Mechanicals" in the program, wear expressionless masks, and the Herald speaks his lines in a deliberate monotone. Iago's deception of Othello occurs before a projection of Magritte's painting, "The Wind and the Song," and, before the first intermission, an actor walks onto the stage with a sign...
There is even a mildly subversive touch. Some of the skinny, tired-looking models who wear them have very short blond hair and bear a more than passing resemblance to Mia Farrow in Rosemary's Baby. Purposely the hair is not quite groomed and the garish lipstick is mildly askew. Perhaps some of these busy women are not quite coping. Or maybe it's just as the designer said: They're bad girls...