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Imagine Mario Cuomo presiding over the New York State legislature in a ball gown and tiara. Today, such a sight might have ended his political career, if the Republicans hadn't gotten to him first. In fact, Cuomo would just have been following the lead of his predecessor Lord Cornbury, the Colonial governor of New York in 1702. Cornbury, using the excuse that he had to he had to represent Queen Anne as best he could, regularly wore women's clothing to the state's Assembly. His portrait--in which he sports "a gown, stays, tucker, long ruffles...
Fifteen years. For the past 15 years, detective Mike Thomas (Mar Cartier) has gotten his hair cut eight times a week, just before concert pianist Isabella Czerny is stabbed in the throat with a deadly pair of scissors. One would think he'd have run out of hair by now, and she'd have moved away from the cursed hair salon where Boston's hilarious audience-participation murder mystery Shear Madness...
Gore's public image has only gotten better since he first ran for the top job in 1988. For once, the media will be able to put aside their mudslinging machines and focus on the issues that Gore knows so well. He's becoming known as a strong troubleshooter and forceful executive. As a fairly young but still seasoned Democrat, Gore presents a sharp contrast to the Republicans' aging cabal...
...projected that four out of 10 first marriages would end in divorce. Indeed, the number of divorces began soaring in the mid-60s and has declined only slightly since peaking at a little over 1.2 million in 1981. Thus, despite sporadic cheers about falling divorce rates, couples have not gotten much better at staying together-not yet anyway. Divorce, Glenda Riley claims, reflects the true American spirit; after the country achieved independence, she says, people wrote divorce petitions that read something like: "My husband is tyrannical. If the U.S. can get rid of King George...
...concert has gotten a lot bigger than wethought it would" because of the large size andfinancial resources of Red Cross, Colangelo said...