Word: portale
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...warm limo on a cold day set James Baker apart from normal working folks. Consequently, Clinton's chief of staff, Mack McLarty, will be making his own way to the office. Of the 45 cars at hand for portal-to-portal service in the Bush Administration, only 16 will remain. That stack of six pristine daily newspapers on every desk in the West Wing: gone. White House mess privileges, which were what separated the merely important from the princes who whisper in the President's ear, will be extended to the clerks who sort the mail, if they can stand...
...planning to start either a "second adulthood" or a new life as a "crone" (Greer's term), the new menopause genre will read like the ghastly tracts on menstruation that used to be inflicted on girls in the 1950s. Puberty then, like menopause now, was a portal labeled ABANDON ALL HOPE, YE WHO ENTER HERE...
...WHEN IT SEEMS THAT RICHARD DARMAN CAN'T GET ANY less popular in Washington, the White House budget chief goes ahead and very publicly renounces his privileged use of the chauffeured car that comes with the job. What's more, Darman is advising fellow Cabinet appointees to give up "portal to portal" service and restrict the use of motor pools in their agencies, or else his Office of Management and Budget will do it for them. Presidential aides agree that the push against perks is a smart move that will allow Bush to continue railing against congressional excesses. Says...
AFTER HALFTIME, some of the Ivy-Leaguers who were drunk at 11 a.m. and kept drinking were in pretty bad shape. Such was the case with the young man lying on the ground outside Portal Four of the Yale Bowl. He had passed out, and vomit was pooled around his half-open mouth. His hands were arranged in a kind of time-out signal...
...Ophthalmologist Jose Portal was a star pitcher and a good shortstop too, but, he recalls, "I couldn't hit worth a damn." That is, not until he switched to batting lefthanded. After studying 23 varsity baseball players at the University of Florida campus in Gainesville, Portal thinks he knows why. ; In last week's New England Journal of Medicine, Portal and fellow Researcher Paul Romano reported that it's mostly a matter of eye-hand dominance. The better pitchers -- and poorer hitters -- tend to have a dominant, or favored, eye and hand on the same side. But good hitters have...