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...Supreme Court allowed cameras in for the Florida case, is there any doubt that all nine Justices would have led Saturday Night Live the very next night? Rehnquist got a taste of television's capacity for leveling when he and the gold stripes on his robe became the subject of much media mirth during the Clinton impeachment trial...
...candles are lit. The room smells faintly of incense. The priest stands at the altar, clothed in a white robe. An intricate purple-patterned tapestry is strung across the altar behind...
...Jackie Chan (the 1978 Drunken Master), Sammo Hung (Magnificent Butcher), Jet Li (The Tai Chi Master) and Michelle Yeoh (Wing Chun, with its amazing battle over a plate of tofu). In period epics and modern cop dramas, his heroes and villains have used chopsticks, pigtails, calligraphy brushes, umbrellas and robe sleeves as impromptu weapons. His melodrama is never mellow: a little girl is bundled in dynamite (The Red-Wolf); a heroine battles a predator on the top of, on the side of and nearly under a speeding ambulance (In the Line of Duty...
...historic to have you here," a slightly overwhelmed Chief Mohammedu Baba, the 14th generation of his family to hold the title, told Clinton. "Nothing like this has happened here!" Clinton delighted in the cream "babun riga" robe the village gave to him, and the "zani" wrapped skirt daughter Chelsea received, and modeled, in the village's crowded market square. The village named him "Danmasani Ushhafa" - meaning the most knowledgeable man in the village (a title not bestowed on Vice President Dan Quayle during his 1991 visit to the same place). "I came to Nigeria to express the support...
...have to fight the crowd. The "Beat Bobby Flay" chant was, at one point, led by eight-year-old Tommy Mothershead, who had traveled from Arizona to see his hero, Iron Chef Masaharu Morimoto, do battle. Mothershead was dressed in a homemade facsimile of Morimoto's silver robe and hat that looked either more or less ridiculous on him, depending on how long you thought about...