Word: newports
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fantasy re-creation of an Old West town. There'll be gunfights around the covered wagon parked on Desperado Street, a sandy boulevard banked by "saloons," "goldsmiths," "jails" -- all facades for the 14 two-story wood-frame buildings that house the guests. Stern's other gem, the Newport Bay Club, is instantly a diamond as big as the Ritz. Bigger, in fact; it's the largest hotel in Europe. The blue, white and cream colors of this seven-story megamansion suggest beachside elegance -- a jaunty, yachty summer idled away with the Rockefellers or Von Bulows...
...three founders, Elaina Newport, Bill Strauss and Jim Aidala, presented the first version of The Capitol Steps at a Senate office Christmas party in 1981. "Like most things in Congress," the program announces, "they never knew when to stop." The Steps' reputation expanded beyond their Washington audience and victims, and they are now heard regularly on National Public Radio...
Last week's show was the usual blend of acerbic wit and creatively outrageous expropriations of popular songs. Songs like "Stand By Your Klan" and "If I Weren't a Rich Man" (with George Bush singing) are merely the beginning. Strauss and Newport steal songs from the thirties--"Forget Your Rubles, Come On Get Preppy," disco--"Keep Him Alive" (a prayer for the President), and even summer camp as a Palestinian delegate to the peace process sings "Hello, Mullah, hello Fatah, here I am at intifada...
...Foley, an attorney from Newport Beach, Calif., who went to high school with Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin and has followed him through five states, said that he had been standing in front of the polls since...
...assert insanity. Last year, for instance, a Florida forensic psychiatrist who was charged with bribery unsuccessfully argued that he was driven insane by his years of work with criminals. "Being a forensic psychiatrist for a long time is not a mental defect," declares Dr. Park Elliott Dietz of Newport Beach, Calif. Usually, defendants must have a defined mental illness. Moreover, it has to be directly linked to the crime. "Someone may have schizophrenia or manic-depressive illness, but that doesn't mean they didn't know what they were doing or couldn't control their conduct," explains Richard Rosner...