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...Queen inherited little of her mother's charm or her publicity smarts (to this day when the old lady travels in the ceremonial horse-drawn coach, tiny, hidden bulbs highlight her face). The present Queen's props have become national jokes -- the pack of corgis, the kerchief, the ever present purse with nothing in it, least of all cash. Like her father, she is shy. A recent TV show detailing her routines, Elizabeth R, has a painful vignette of the Queen visiting an old people's home. She asks one elderly soul, who is obviously not dressed for the street...
...that rarely takes any good-for-you legislation seriously: while theaters and public transportation are smoke- free, hospitals and schools are not always, and restaurants are decidedly not. Parliament will soon try again to pass a law that will so reduce public smoking areas that Bruno Simoncelli, a two-pack-a-day government filing clerk, frets, "I'll have to go back to smoking in the bathroom the way I did when I first started at 16." Even so, restaurants that must install special air conditioning will be given a three-year grace period...
Hong Kong has matched Singapore's low smoking rate by relying primarily on market forces: a 300% tax in 1983 and an additional 100% tax last year have brought the price of a regular pack to $2.60. In Japan politeness prevails: 61% of adult males smoke, and little has been done beyond recommending the establishment of no-smoking areas in workplaces. This has led to a small outcropping of carefully marked places where smokers can congregate...
...middle course between all- out deficit reduction and gangbusters stimulation of the economy. His goal is "to bring this deficit down . . . gradually and within a framework which permits us to substantially increase investment" (good luck). On legislative strategy, Clinton said he would emulate, of all people, Ronald Reagan and pack "a whole lot of changes into omnibus bills . . . the fewer votes ((in Congress)) you have, the better off you are." The President-elect summoned congressional leaders to a Sunday huddle in Little Rock, and was then to leave the Arkansas capital for a quick trip to Washington, where he will...
...movie is silliest when show-biz celebrities parade on and off the stage as if it were Impressionists Night at the Improv. Sinatra gets marital advice from Humphrey Bogart, rushes to Sammy Davis Jr.'s bedside after his car accident and cavorts with the Rat Pack in a steam room at the Sands Hotel. The scenes between Sinatra and the Kennedy family are the phoniest of all, but they do open up the touchy subject of Sinatra's mob links. During the 1960 presidential campaign, Joe Kennedy asks Sinatra for help with "our friends in Chicago who control the unions...