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...Mafia, on Las Palmas road. Young women in stone-washed jeans and high-heeled shoes often accompany the members of the drug-industry proletariat. On occasion the four-wheel-drive vehicles they favor cruise the streets in force. The cartel's thugs will sometimes clear a traffic jam by blazing away with their guns pointed...
Some Democratic leaders are already frustrated over the party's inability to coalesce around a nominee, especially now that the Republicans have all but chosen their standard-bearer. But the Super Tuesday delegate jam may have given the Democratic contenders -- particularly Dukakis and Gore -- a chance to catch their breath and remind themselves that a campaign should be a battle over ideas and visions, not merely synthetic campaign messages. At the moment, it is a democratic principle that only Jackson seems to understand...
Saint Misbehavin' is jam-packed with good lyrics-maybe too jam-packed with good lyrics. It's difficult to say, because in many instances so many words are squeezed onto each measure of music that whatever is being said on stage disintegrates by the time it reaches the audience. This mattered less on opening night, when there was a fair bit of screaming by roommates in the audience, than it might on night two, three or 26. In the Pudding's tradition, however, one pun begets another...
...Silly-Putty kind of face, Ralph Klein went straight from covering city hall to running it in 1980. Now in his third term and a tireless polisher of his city's image, Klein is full of rosy facts and rousing figures about the Games. Some 80,000 visitors will jam the hotels, and every event should be close to a sellout. The Canadian organizers expect to turn a $23 million profit. In addition, Calgary will inherit state-of-the-art facilities, such as the $31 million indoor speed- skating oval and the ski jumps and bobsled and luge runs...
...roads and poor social services. "We have a 16-year-old daughter who comes home from school with a different problem every day," says Mrs. Jones. "She can't get this; the school doesn't provide that. You get three cars on the road, and you have a traffic jam...