Word: lap
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What a difference a year makes. 12 months ago the Grateful Dead's annual psycedelic lap around the nation was indefinitely stalled due to lead guitarist/holy person Jerry Garcia's exhaustion. The entire East Coast leg of the tour was cancelled and some raised doubts about whether Garcia and the Dead would ever rise again...
...when meeting at the Holsts' home, got down on the floor to play with their hosts' four-year-old son, Edvard. (Arafat met the boy when Holst spent 10 days in Tunisia in June during an unofficial visit. Fond of children, the P.L.O. leader would perch Edvard on his lap during breaks in his talks with the Norwegians...
...would never happen. Heckendorn, now 50, says she finally ran into a high- level gauntlet of sexual harassment and discrimination. In a lawsuit filed last week, she accuses one male director of repeatedly calling her "babe" and another of inviting her to sit on his lap at a board meeting. Heckendorn, who claims she was passed over for the top job solely because she is a woman, is demanding $15 million in damages. "This is a way to seek a remedy and, hopefully, vindication," she says. National Medical, which is based in Santa Monica, California, denied the charges and vowed...
...would be with a group of girls in the corner," recalls an observer. "You'd see her get up and talk to a guy by the bar, then she'd go back and get a girl, and then the girl would go over and sit on the guy's lap while he ran his hand under her clothes." Soon the word got about that Heidi had the best girls in town. Business blossomed. Melrose faded. Benedict Canyon loomed...
...Congress approves the deal its leaders are crafting, the President will take what one of his aides calls "a victory lap around the country to make sure he gets some credit." All but the most cynical (and those with a personal agenda) should applaud -- and Clinton will deserve...