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...they added to their polyglot empire. Thus, the ancient Azerbaijani trading city of Gyandzha became Kirovabad to honor Sergei Kirov (he got a ballet company too), who headed the Communist Party in the republic in the 1920s. Nizhni Novgorod was renamed Gorky, for the chronicler of the working class, Maxim...
...maxim "Once burned, twice shy" apparently doesn't mean much to televangelist Jimmy Swaggart. Disgraced in 1988 after a liaison with a Louisiana call girl, Swaggart, 56, was stopped by police in Indio, Calif., two weeks ago for a traffic violation and found to be in the company of Rosemary Garcia, an admitted streetwalker. That latest foray prompted Swaggart to resign from his Baton Rouge-based ministry last Tuesday to seek "professional counseling and medical care." But the next day the preacher reversed the decision, explaining to his congregation that God told him to return to the pulpit. Swaggart announced...
...after he was declared the series' Most Valuable Player, * Avery got baptized in champagne he was barely old enough to purchase legally. And the Pirates, who carried the curse of being the best National League team for the past two seasons, were left to dwell on the melancholy baseball maxim, "Losing hurts more than winning feels good...
...couldn't happen to a more deserving fella. Loesser would tell you that. As brash as any gravel-gargling high roller from Guys and Dolls, he was famous for telling his singers, "Loud is good," and he applied that maxim to his professional life. For Loesser, a song was melodrama in miniature: he loved the counterpoint of two hearts and voices in seductive competition, as in Baby, It's Cold Outside and many other contentious duets. They were an expression of his own tumultuous personality. During Guys and Dolls rehearsals, exasperated by Isabel Bigley's tentative attempts...
...never too early to plan for those retirement years, and GEORGE BUSH seems to be taking that maxim to heart. The President has quietly bought a lot in suburban Houston, taking advantage of the soft Texas real estate market to find a spot to build a post-presidency residence that's close to his old ! friends in the oil industry. The Bushes will spend eight months of the year there while continuing to pass the summer season in Kennebunkport...