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...afternoon of skating includes a rousing game of Hokey-Pokey, the ever popular Macarena and, according to general manager Paula Nieves, "everyone's favorite," the Chickie Dance. After the children partake in these games it is time to skate freely...as long, of course, as everyone abides by the rules. Two surprisingly crusty geriatric referees in black-and-white striped jerseys circulate the skating rink, taking care that the children are "listening, following the rules and skating at a moderate pace." In fact, children have been known to get kicked out for "rowdy skating and wise guy behavior...
...morning paper buoyed by the knowledge that you were almost certain to find some embarrassing revelation--maybe some weasel words from the publishing house that had given assurances of the manuscript's authenticity--but that little harm could come of it all beyond a couple of years in the pokey for Irving. Even if there had been cable-news channels then, none of them would have had a format that could have been described as "all Clifford, all the time...
...Pokey Little Puppy', a `Little Golden Book,' was about a puppy who gets into trouble like Peter Rabbit," she says. "It's who I wanted to be when I was little. I always wanted to be mischievous even though I was this perfect little angel...
Despite such strong ties to the literature of her youth, Sinott decided to leave "The Pokey Little Puppy" and other favorites at home where her three younger sisters may one day decide to flip through them...
...Happily, NBC's tab "Dateline" resisted the maudlin nightgeist, and accentuated the political in a jail-house interview with Whitewater convict Susan McDougal. Ken Starr sent her to the pokey, she claimed, "because I refused to lie for him." Another bombshell: McDougal's husband Jim came to her from Starr with an offer of freedom if she'd testify to having an affair with Clinton, she maintains. "Bill would never tell anyone to lie," she insisted,wide-eyed. And then the crowd-pleasers: "I know this is bad for the country...Kenneth Starr has become Jerry Springer...It's time...