Word: parlorized
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...About 60 people gathered in the Phillips brooks House Parlor room on Tuesday night to attend the teach-in. One of the speakers was Lorenzo Jose Jose, a Mexican farmer who recently finished his term as president of a cooperative of 23.000 indigenous workers in Oaxaca, Mexico...
...week could provide the same cardiovascular benefits as going for the burn. Well, it just got better. Researchers report that, in women at least, one hour a week of walking--even slowly--could cut the risk of heart disease in half. Suggestion: Don't make the ice cream parlor your destination...
...Manuel Ortega, 37, of Riverdale, Calif., whose bus has six TV sets, including one that rises out of the dinette table. This season, however, the biggest wow is elicited by the three or four double slides that have rolled into camp. In this configuration, two compartments, one in the parlor and another in the bedroom, extend outward when the bus is parked. So with the touch of a button the width of the bus swells from 8 ft. to 11 ft. That feature will cost you an additional $300,000 or so--or enough to buy a couple of Ferraris...
...down, of course, it would throw Bush even further off kilter. Governing without Cheney at his side is a prospect neither he nor his aides want to entertain. Those staff members willing to consider the idea simply call Cheney irreplaceable and leave it at that. Even so, the favorite parlor game among Republicans outside the White House last week--even among Bush friends--was speculation on who might replace Cheney if he were to step down. Colin Powell was the consensus choice, although the Secretary of State passed up Bush's offer last summer. Other names included the various Senators...
...Brown decision. Coming, the other day on Fox Television, from Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, the only ex-Klansman who plays the fiddle and reads Plutarch both, it seemed a period piece brought down from the attic, to the surprise and confusion of those gathered in the parlor - an item of yesteryear's genteel insincerity with the mildew of viciousness still...