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...wink from your pals, a spread in People if you're Clint Eastwood, and a bump in the polls if you're Strom Thurmond. A trophy kid is so common among the '90s tycoons, you'd think it was a corporate perk, like stock options. Meanwhile, a woman's peak childbearing years coincide precisely with her peak career-building years. Try having a baby at age 38 while your tier of associates at Shearman & Sterling is up for partnership. See who becomes "of counsel...
...mere toy, so light that the male dancer could easily manipulate her around his body and into the air. It was an amazing juxtaposition of complete control and melting intimacy. There was never a break in movement throughout the piece and as the Bolero rose to its peak the audience sat at the edge of their seats until it all crashed...
...pretty sure that Nostradamus predicted a premillennial Hollywood plague of natural-disaster movies. Last year Twister; this fall The Flood. In February, Dante's Peak sent small-town folk scurrying from their local Vesuvius; now Mick Jackson's Volcano has man tamper in God's domain--by daring to build a subway in L.A. The script, by Jerome Armstrong and Billy Ray, thus exploits two major fears of Angelenos: getting demolished by a horrid subterranean force, and having to take public transportation...
...search for the A-10 centers on New York Mountain, a rugged, 12,467-ft. peak in the central Rockies where several eyewitnesses reported seeing fires and smoke and hearing a loud explosion on April 2. Since then, though, several fresh feet of snow have been dumped on the already remote and snowy area, and search aircraft have been mostly grounded by bad weather. But even if the jet is found, some vital information will be missing: the A-10 carries no black box. Investigators may never learn why Captain Button did not radio for help--or why he veered...
...competence were somewhere on the mountain at the time. Ten of these were commercial ventures, run by professional adventure-travel guides, whose clients, some experienced climbers and some not, paid as much as $65,000 or $70,000 a head to be led up the world's highest peak. "With enough determination, any bloody idiot can get up this hill," said New Zealander Rob Hall, a respected climber who headed Adventure Consultants, the best-known of the guiding outfits. Hall added, in a comment that was to echo mournfully, "The trick is to get back down alive...