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...many citizens of Japan, where personal hygiene is paramount and high technology extends into just about every sphere of daily life. This combination has produced the enthronement of the bathroom as a focus for ingenuity and decorating style. "The Japanese have given up hopes of having a garden, and are spending money for comfortable dwellings," says sociologist Yukio Akatsuka. "The interest is now shifting from the living room to the bathroom." Though the seatless holes in the ground of stereotypical Western dread still exist in many parts of Japan, the newfangled WC is often a marvel of gadgetry...
...performed in five feature films, including the newly released thriller, The Kiss." Her newest film--Dream a Little Dream, co-starring Jason Robards, Corey Feldman and Corey Haim--is slated for release next month. And she says Paramount Pictures has agreed to produce a script she is writing...
Symbols all. But something else was going on last week, something of substance and paramount importance: the beginning of what may be an exquisitely orchestrated retreat. The flip side of "kinder, gentler" is embodied in Bush's famous campaign pledge, "Read my lips: no new taxes," a politically expedient stance that helped him win election and now threatens his ability to govern successfully. "Backing off that promise could destroy his presidency," says a senior Administration official. "But we'll probably have to do just that. How we do it without making the President out to be a liar...
Brown had made little money, but he had developed a taste for the good life. So when Tom Boggs, one of Washington's paramount lawyer-lobbyists, talked to him at a party given by Kennedy, he was open to an offer. Brown signed on as a partner at Patton, Boggs & Blow with a salary comfortably in the six-figure range. "He has a deft touch on Capitol Hill, just like he has on a basketball court," says former Army Secretary Clifford Alexander, a Washington lawyer who plays ball with Brown on Saturday mornings. "He makes his opinions clear...
...final installment of his fiction trilogy, Professor of Law Derrick Bell devises a scheme to blow up the Harvard Coop when it won't invite him to hold a book-signing/wine and brie party there. Bell is awarded a $10 million contract by Paramount Pictures to turn the episode into a screenplay...