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...heart on the runway, Kelly wrestles with the tiniest details. Two hours before the last show, he was backstage in the Louvre tent amid models, dressers, seamstresses, hairdressers, makeup artists, lighting technicians and stagehands. "Paint those red lips!" he ordered. "I want you to look like you just got rid of your third husband!" Dashing through mounds of hats decorated with rhinestone Eiffel Towers, past racks of pink minks, turquoise ostrich feathers, Mexican blankets and red sequined gowns, he fusses with a model's hair. He directs a seamstress to stitch a new lining in a fur cape. Three minutes...
Besides, we tend in our moralism to forget how treacherous morality can be. Last year the Hanshin Tigers, a professional baseball team in Osaka, got rid of their longtime star, the American Randy Bass, because he stayed at his ailing son's bedside instead of returning to the team. For the Japanese, putting family before company was the ultimate sin; to Bass, no doubt, abandoning his son for a game would have seemed the greater treachery. Many fans these days believe that baseball players who turn their heroism to capital, selling autographs to kids (Mickey Mantle earns more from signing...
...They come in and play the machines, and when they finish and start hanging around, we get rid of them," he said...
...political asylum in the U.S. are finally about to be dealt with, they trek to a makeshift Immigration and Naturalization Service post at the newly opened Port Isabel Processing Center, 25 miles away. Two weeks ago, angry local officials forced the shutdown of an INS office in Harlingen to rid the town of 500 refugees who have been shoehorned into overcrowded shelters and camps since last year. At Port Isabel, the refugees, clutching their meager possessions, line up to be fingerprinted and questioned by immigration officials -- and then wait some more to find out if they will be allowed...
...Cannes Film Festival last year, an outstanding movie. These qualities are evident in an early scene where Lasse and Pelle have just entered their new living quarters. Although the two have been able to transform this sty into an orderly and respectable bedroom, they could not get rid of the many flies...