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...soft-spoken single guy who drives a pickup truck with a gun rack, Sullivan comes from a family of Greenville jewelers. A nonvet and nonjournalist, he got his start at Southern Partisan by writing about the Sons of Confederate Veterans as a member and officer. Sullivan is Christian, antiabortion and a supporter of small, decentralized government. His magazine is all those things and also a passionate defender of the Confederate flag. Sullivan says it's fair to call the publication right-wing with a Southern twist. But not racist...
Jackie answered with the famous comeback that to spend that much, "I would have to wear sable underwear." Yet in no time, Pat Nixon was telling reporters how she bought American designers and that she got them straight off the rack. Jack Kennedy was also courting the International Ladies Garment Workers' Union, whose powerful president, David Dubinsky, was cautioning J.F.K. that his wife had to buy American. Jackie could see what the press would make her into. She wrote in despair to a friend: "I refuse to be the Marie-Antoinette...of the 1960s...
...border post exudes an air of the illicit?a battered desk, a netted bed and a rack of rusting AK-47s cram a one-room shack. The Cambodian guard may ask for a $5 "gift" to expedite the paperwork: refuse only if you have plenty of time. The Lao post is on the opposite bank. The official there will also ask for a tip and may invite you to get drunk but it's best to beg off, as your next halt, Don Khon, is still a 20-minute boat ride away...
...rank among the Moonlight’s most caustic: “And if I see you snooping ’round my farm / I’ll give you a mug of cocoa, then I’ll break your arm / And if I tortured you upon a rack / You wouldn’t say half what you say behind my back / I’m an alien, baby / I’m an outsider, yeah...
...exclude Waterworld because I actually think it was a darn good movie), even the most forgiving folk promised to boycott all future Costner exercises-in-ego. Which meant, of course, that Thirteen Days, his Cuban Missile Crisis drama which opened in December, tanked miserably and didn’t rack up the acclaim he clearly expected. So Costner railed against American audiences in interviews and decided that the movie was, uh, better suited for Cubans. He took the film to Havana, had a screening of it and smoked cigars with Fidel Castro, and according to one eyewitness...