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Village Voice executive editor Richard Goldstein put Croce "under the aegis of the Great Newt, [where] a traditionalist may safely rage against the rise of minorities." Conservative art critic Hilton Kramer saw things differently, calling the piece "the most definitive essay on the arts in the 1990s that any American critic has yet written ... a landmark in the cultural history...
...crowd in the Hilton ballroom couldn't have been more excited if Elvis had turned up. Instead, this being Washington, the star was a fiftysomething politician, and as soon as his trademark helmet of white hair breezed through the door at stage right, 400 freshly elected conservative state legislators leaped to their feet and chanted, "Newt! Newt! Newt!" By the time Newt Gingrich had concluded his now familiar excoriation of the liberal welfare state, he had the faithful rushing the dais as if they were at a rock concert, shouldering each other aside just to be near their hero...
...every casual utterance, nor on the spectacle of the President scrambling to pull himself aboard the Republican tax-cut bandwagon. Gingrich, who classifies most experiences as either neat or weird, pronounced these very weird. Yet he takes his new prominence quite seriously. On the morning after the Hilton speech, a rainy Saturday in mid-December, he met with a dozen of his top advisers and asked them, almost plaintively, "How would you use who I am becoming...
Jury awards Tailhook accuser $1.7 million from Las Vegas Hilton...
...Vegas Hilton was ordered today to pay former Navy pilot Paula Coughlin $1.7 million for failing to provide adequate security at the1991 Tailhook convention, where Coughlin says she was sexually assaulted by drunken aviators. A U.S. District Court jury in Las Vegas ruled after two days of deliberations that the hotel and its parent, Hilton Hotel Corp., acted with malice. Deliberations begin Monday on punitive damages. Coughlin sued the Navy and the hotel, but settled with the Navy. So far, the Tailhook scandal has resulted in the resignation of former Navy Secretary H. Lawrence Garrett III and put on hold...