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...didn't know what sunshine was," says Steve Ceccanti, 48, owner of two restaurants near Portland, Ore. "My wife and I were on the job every day at 11 a.m., and we closed at 10:30 p.m." Those who traveled rarely had time to enjoy the scenery. Their memories of America are of rental-car lots and airport gates, as they pressed on from one assignment to another. They have vowed never to rest their head on a motel pillow again...
Reginald Vel Johnson, TV's lovable Carl Winslow, makes the leap from television sitcoms to his first feature role. In Chocolat, he plays Shawn Kemp, a 330-pound power forward who struggles with his eating problems and his confinement to the Portland Trail Blazers bench. He also cannot spell the foods he loves so much because, like so many NBA players today, he made the leap to the pros before he finished school. Of course, that was back when he could leap...
Everyone's getting in on the act. Detlef Schrempf is set to rejoin the Portland Trail Blazers after half a year off. There are rumors of a second round of Fernandomania--Valenzuela is only forty, after all. Barry Sanders' return has been so heavily discussed, it might has well have happened. At this rate, let the Tom Seaver watch begin...
...Gray Davis meets the cold glares of western governors and energy-minded Bush administration officials at the power-crisis summit in Portland this weekend, at least he won't have shown up empty-handed...
...Want conservation? Want to find the point at which supply meets demand? Lift the price caps that Davis is still clinging to and will try to sell in Portland this weekend. (Bush, who seems to have some real political guts along with 3,000 miles' separation from the Democrat Davis's problem, is against them.) Sure, you might get voted out of office, but you'll have done a valuable thing: Forcing Californians to deal with their own competing desires for conspicuous consumption and cheap electricity. And now that Davis has apparently found a point at which politics meet reality...