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...only a few months ago that Kathleen Kennedy Townsend seemed so unbeatable that no big-name Democrat would challenge her? With millions pouring into her campaign coffers, Townsend seemed to have a lock on this year's election for Maryland Governor. When Townsend's aunt Eunice Kennedy Shriver threw her a $10-a-head fund raiser last year, traffic backed up for more than a mile, as 5,000 people clamored for an afternoon of Kennedy glamour. And the Governor's mansion was seen as a way station: it was just a matter of time, the pundits were saying, until...
...moved out lock, stock and barrel, as they say, turning my back on all that, the money and everything. It was an amazing feeling of freedom, to make my life on my own terms, for better or worse. Of course, I had to figure out how to support myself. I went straight to Greenwich Village to stay with a friend. In a very short time, I arranged a sublet for about eight of us at 60 West 10th Street, the first of many Village apartments over the next decade. I got odd jobs. My favorite was delivering telegrams for Western...
...entering the bloodstream of the mainland and challenging the Communist Party's monopoly on power. Now that Beijing has struck its deal between economic freedom and political restriction, the virus looks as if it is moving the other way. So what, the Hong Kong administration may say, if we lock up a few dissenters to burnish our credentials with the emperor to the north provided he gives us some economic advantages to pull us out of our slump...
...that moment, the untenability of the situation became clear,” he says. “There was absolutely no place to lock it on the rack. I haven’t ridden my bike to school since then...
...Heaven Allows, then trumps them by making the gardener a black man and the alcoholic spouse gay. The film wears its chic, imitation-of-Sirk style like a mink stole at a country-club ball, and as the matron, Julianne Moore gives a tautly frazzled turn that is a lock for an Oscar nomination. The problem is that Haynes reduces most of his characters to stick figures bearing placards. The film is a high-camp cocktail - a martini with gin and hemlock - that's shaken but not stirring. The Magdalene Sisters came to town fresh from copping the top prize...