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...unclear why the action stops in 1955, as opposed to continuing farther into the future, or coming closer to the present. Throughout this section, hints are given of things to come--computers, modern TVs, etc,--so one wonders what is special about that particular year. Also, why are Fanny, Mar, and Alexandra on a quest to hunt down Eisenhower? If they are emissaries from the past, what is the message they have to impart...
Vowing retaliation for Israeli government orders to shoot their leaders on sight, Hamas, the militant Islamic group that blew up a Tel Aviv bus last week, threatened to mar President Clinton's five-country Middle East tour with more violence. Since the bombing, Israeli authorities have rounded up dozens of second- and third-tier Hamas operatives from the West Bank and Gaza Strip, including, Rabin disclosed today, two alleged accomplices of the suicide bomber, Salah Abdel Rahim Hassan Assawi. Rabin also pledged to amass a 10,000-member security force for Clinton's arrival in Jerusalem Thursday. In Washington, Secretary...
Walt Disney Co. has scrapped plans to build its colossal $650 million historical theme park on a Virginia site that opponents feared would mar some real history nearby: Manassas National Battlefield, scene of two of the most important Civil War battles. The midnight decision stunned both backers of the project, like Virginia Governor George Allen, and others who thought planned slavery exhibits and other parts of the enterprise sounded tasteless...
Sitting in a midtown Manhattan restaurant, long past lunchtime, Horne looks $ exquisitely beautiful under a big straw hat, without a line to mar her fine- boned face. She speaks of the album's inspiration in a voice whose honeyed drawl seems to have all the Old South in it. "I met Billy Strayhorn in 1942," she says, "in Los Angeles at an Ellington show called Jump for Joy. I was MGM's token black starlet, getting no parts, and a divorced mother of two. Billy was homosexual, but I fell in love. He was the thoughtful side of Ellington...
...those people who had spent the early months of 1993 feeling mighty smug because I have always paid the Social Security tax for my once-a-week cleaning lady and have the paperwork to prove it. This second demonstration of my job- creating prowess would not be allowed to mar that record. Anyway, the paperwork would not be my problem. What are assistants for, after...