Word: jacked
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...finish each other's sentences because they are, finally, one creature: that familiar Shaw character, the Bright Young Upstart, whose iconoclasm glides and shimmers rather than pounds and thunders. Unfortunately, others in the cast (Helen Taylor as the twins' icy sister Gloria, with whom the dentist falls in love; Jack Medley as the world's most dexterous waiter) are not quite up to the mark. The Clandon family's eventual reunion, like the sea around them, is a little choppy...
...Jack E. White's cynicism notwithstanding, the action of the Southern Baptist Convention in asking forgiveness from blacks for its role in defending segregation was very significant [DIVIDING LINE, July 3]. You know Baptists are serious when they use the word sin to describe racism. True, Baptists should have repented long ago. True, they could have been key players in the civil rights movement. But they didn't, and they weren't. The past is deplorable, but it is also irreparable. Are we to go on hating one another forever? The real tragedy would be if blacks took as long...
Panelists included David Broder of The Washington Post, David N. Dinkins, former mayor of New York City, Lynn Martin, former Secretary of Labor, Barbara Roberts, former governor of Oregon, Jack Rosenthal, editor of The New York Times Magazine, and Donald McHenry, former ambassador to the United Nations...
...Hanoi in 1967, spent 5-1/2 years in enemy captivity, including 31 months in solitary. Brutally beaten and otherwise tortured, repeatedly on the edge of death, McCain survived by drawing on some fierce inner resource. When the North Vietnamese--knowing that McCain's father was the famous Admiral Jack McCain, commander in chief of the U.S. Pacific forces--tried to release the young flyer early on as a propaganda gesture, McCain, crippled and skeletal, spat in their faces and let loose such an outpouring of naval obscenity that the startled North Vietnamese dignitaries flew backward out of McCain...
...hockey's Blackhawks play, 216 suites sell for between $55,000 and $175,000 a year. "The luxury suites are the financial engine that offsets the cost ($175 million) the Bulls and Blackhawks incurred in constructing the facility," says Steve Schanwald, vice president of marketing for the Bulls. Jack Kent Cooke, owner of the N.F.L.'s Washington Redskins, is so enamored of luxury boxes--and the Washington lobbyists are so eager to buy them--that the joke around the Beltway is that the new Redskins stadium, which is planned for Landover, Maryland, will have 850 luxury boxes, with a handful...