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Jean styles include 501, 505, 512, 517, 519, 550 and Silver Tab for men; 501, 901, 512, 902 and 560 for women. Prices range from $24.99 for regular stone-washed to $40.00 for offbeat dyed colors...
...Santeria spokesmen insist that unlike the gruesome rituals still routinely performed in Cuba, their sacrifices are humane and no animals are tortured. But opponents disagree. "Carcasses are polluting our rivers and rotting in the streets," says ! Marian Lentz of the Animal Rights Foundation of Florida. Pichardo admits that some offbeat cults may be responsible for the animals floating in canals. But he insists that his own group cooks and ritually eats most of its animals, gives leftovers to the homeless, and neatly disposes of any carcasses that cannot be eaten because they have absorbed negative power...
...Harris plays a slick U.S. Senator who needs a wife to boost his bid for the presidency. Diane Keaton is a children's book author who falls for him but becomes a liability when a past indiscretion surfaces. The two stars click as a romantic team; there are nice offbeat touches (Keaton's mentally unbalanced brother, played by Ed Begley Jr.); and the backstage political scenes ring surprisingly true. Despite a cozy, upbeat ending, this romantic drama displays more courage than most real- life candidates: it deals with the issues...
...Three networks may be having their problems, but they still know how to play the p.r. game. This summer has been heralded as the most active and creative in years: an unusually large number of new series are being offered instead of reruns. Many of them are offbeat entries, which, we are assured, are getting special treatment by being launched during the less competitive summer months...
...meeting seemed part New Age Carnaval, part 1960s teach-in and part soap opera. Vying for attention with religious leaders and research groups were such fringe organizations as H.E.M.P. (Help End Marijuana Prohibition). Asked what the drug had to do with sustainable development, spokesman Ron Tisbury had his offbeat sound bite ready: "Anything you can build with petrochemicals, you can make out of marijuana." The media began using words like farce and fiasco to describe Rio, and one participant called the conference the "greatest fraud ever perpetrated...