Word: les
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Congress as well. A pro-choice advocate who works for domestic-violence awareness, she supports the assault-weapons ban and the Brady Bill, and wants to protect educational programs like Head Start and student loans. G.O.P. freshman Mark Neumann may be vulnerable here, where voters re-elected Democrat Les Aspin 11 times...
...what about the mimes? A trio of French clowns, Les Macloma, is tiresome in its first two appearances, beguiling in its third (a snatch of music played on two balloons and a one-string violin). But John Gilkey, Quidam's emcee, is a gawky delight, especially in a dance routine with a hat rack. Gilkey knows that the body is a deft comic instrument, even as the charming Chinese girls who do the "diabolos" routine (spinning a toy on a string while prancing nonstop in short skirts and Tin Woodman hats) know how to make this precision aerobic workout seem...
...probably have a lot of time to enjoy London," said historian Jed S. Cohen '99. "Some of the guys in the group are looking forward to seeing the new musical 'Martin Guerre' by the writers of 'Les Miserables.' Others are excited about the London club scene...
ORSON WELLES, director, writer, actor and...children's book illustrator? For Christmas 1956, 12-year-old REBECCA WELLES, Orson's daughter by Rita Hayworth, got a picture book about the festival of Les Bravades in St. Tropez, written and illustrated by her dad. "It was a wonderful gift, because I wasn't living with him at the time, and it was so unique and personal," says Rebecca. She sold the book in 1990, "because I thought the world should see it." Bart Rosenblatt and Al Corley (also known as the first Steven Carrington on Dynasty), beat out Martin Scorsese...
...Death Row, All Eyez on Me, was filled with the label's typical violent posturing. But Kidada Jones, Shakur's fiance (and daughter of show-biz mogul Quincy Jones), says that before his death Shakur was changing his ways--going out less, staying in more, watching movies like Les Miserables on laser disc. "Instead of going to strip clubs, he'd be cooking," says Jones. Shakur planned to move away from music and into acting, Jones adds. She says his last recording, Makiaveli, completed before his death, is "a really deep album...he wasn't talking about money...