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...running feud with the press herd had already been revived the week before, when he and Actress Tatum O'Neal were married in Oyster Bay, N.Y. McEnroe spit at a photographer a couple of days before the wedding and slipped into the church through dark curtains draped over the carport entrance. Give him points for trying, however. After the ceremony McEnroe and his wife waved, smiled and kissed for the crowds outside the church...
Perfect. Perfect has always been the problem. By today's movie conventions, Weaver, 36, is too gorgeous to be ordinary, too smart to be sexy, too sensible to be interesting. Hollywood lusts for the diseased oyster these days, not the pearl. And so, while notching a worthy stage career on Broadway (Hurlyburly) and in regional theater, Weaver has been placed in the cluttered corners of raucous comedies starring Saturday Night Live alumni (Ghostbusters, Deal of the Century) or at the cores of enigmatic dramas (Eyewitness, The Year of Living Dangerously). She is Dom Perignon in a town built to sell...
Eventually Gorbachev retired to the nearby Marigny Palace to change for a state dinner. When the Soviet First Couple returned to the Elysee, Mitterrand and Gorbachev staged a public reprise of several elements of their private chat. After a meal of oyster soup, sole a la Dieppoise, saddle of lamb Provencale and iced nougat, Mitterrand urged both superpowers to find a "reasonable compromise" in Geneva next month. Calling Franco-Soviet cooperation a "fundamental element of our foreign policy," the French President reiterated his country's opposition to space weapons, without mentioning...
Another choice, the garlic shrimp and oyster pasta, properly merits a Surgeon General's warning. We could not palate a full serving of this pungent and powerful dish; the few who do probably regret it afterwards...
...year Benjamin Franklin scholarship. Years later Wideman admits the irony in his attempt to be self-made man: "I wanted to be Horatio Alger, there seemed to be no limits ... being Black, you had to pretend. I knew I wasn't Horatio Alger and the world wasn't my oyster...