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...village, and the green here is really, really green. And the girls are dressed in grass skirts, and so too are many of the boys, with sashes of flowers across their oiled chests and woven tree bark around their ankles. The 50-man long boats are racing past mist-wreathed rain-forest mountains, and the muddy park is taken over by cricket. But not the game of white-flannel elegance as it is played at the Marylebone Cricket Club in London. Oh, no! This is tropical, Technicolor kirikiti -- buxom girls in lemon yellow shirts and sky blue skirts thwacking around...
...their skin these days, but nobody likes to handle greasy, gritty suntan-lotion bottles. One entrepreneur's answer is Sun Center, a vending machine that dispenses tanning oil with a spray applicator. A customer activates the spritzer by depositing 50 cents. A hand-held nozzle then emits a light mist for 40 seconds, generally enough to cover those hard-to-reach places...
...Tower battle are riveting, but they distract from far more universal questions about the conduct of public officials. The reason ethics in Government seems so tiresome is that the goal has become obscured in a legalistic fog of disclosure requirements, recusations and blind trusts. Lost in the mist are commonsense standards for integrity in Government like these...
Actress Sigourney Weaver claimed a rare Oscar double nomination for best actress for Gorillas in the Mist: The Adventure of Dian Fossey and best supporting actress for Working Girl...
Other multiple nominees included Gorillas in the Mist, with five and The Accidental Tourist and Die Hard with four nominations each...