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...first time in more than 30 years the nation has elected a President with sex appeal? The last six Presidents -- Bush, Reagan, Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford, Richard Nixon and Lyndon Johnson -- combined do not conjure up enough erotic energy to fill a single room at the No-Tell Motel. Forget Gennifer Flowers -- this is not the moment to descend into the muck of her sleazy allegations. Rather, the swooning and the cooing on the rope lines during the last breathless days of the Clinton campaign were unavoidably reminiscent of Kennedy. In Louisville, Kentucky, the scene seemed out of Beatlemania. Women...
...merely set the stage for the true, dangerous deception, the impression created by the manufacturer in the enforced absence of information that such implants are safe? When a wife asks her husband how his day went, is he obliged to answer, "Great -- I spent the lunch hour in a motel room with my mistress"? If he does not disclose this detail, is he guilty of lying, or is he -- the cheat -- simply sparing his wife's feelings or avoiding a potentially unpleasant scene...
...Jason Leigh). If Hedy's possessive rages hadn't given Allie a hint, the dead pet would have. And in Raising Cain, none of the cops has seen Psycho. Otherwise they might have been suspicious of that tall creature in a cheap shoulder-length wig sneaking out of the motel, while all homicide was breaking loose...
Thus, it is no simple matter to devise a political campaign that can appeal to Southern blacks as well as whites, to Florida motel operators as well as Texas bankers, to South Carolina cotton growers as well as Virginia lawyers, to blue-collar as well as white-collar workers. The South, once derided as a cultural and political backwater, has come to resemble the rest of America, both physically and in its social and political attitudes, more closely than at any other time in the country's history. "Today," says Carter, whose candidacy helped end the South's isolation, "Oregon...
...hand, business is definitely up. Says Ken Hine, president of the American Hotel and Motel Association: "The airfare war has been the greatest stimulus I have seen in many years. Our reservations traffic is up more than 30% in many places, all because of the airfares." But on the other hand, the airfare sale has created a huge demand for unprofitable, cheapskate travel. And chances are good that more fare wars are coming. Travel companies fear the auto industry pattern, in which consumers refuse to buy at anything but desperation prices. The U.S. hotel industry is severely overbuilt. Nearly...