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...house shows short, others apparently feel obliged to be just as daring. Never mind that mass-market stores like the Gap are selling thousands of midcalf dresses every week. A micromini with fancy tights or patterned, lace-topped hose looks glamorous when Claudia Schiffer sashays down the runway. But when she is snapped in mufti, she is usually wearing pants...
...then there are the delays. Glassy-eyed passengers can spend days huddled in dimly lit waiting rooms called, with spectacular aptness, "accumulators." Last summer, after enduring four stuporous days stranded in Moscow's Vnukovo airport, 350 passengers stormed the runway in an attempt to force a plane to take them home. Riot police were called in, and three people were injured...
Montreal's Dourval Airport was evacuated for anhour Thursday evening while we sat on the runway,a safe distance from the avenging Mounties. Wewere entertained by a lively soprano duet byinfant twins, harmoniously accompanied by a chorusof police sirens. As we settled in the wait outthe bad guys, our experience prompted a reflectionon our luck. A week of vacation. A Fresh issue ofCosmo. Two charming traveling companions...
...sharpness of the turn right after takeoff would have been more appropriate for a bumper car ride at the local fair. And when landing, the pilots set the right side of the plane down, and, then, with a loud bang, let the left side fell to the runway...
Despite Clinton's evocation during the campaign of a country that "works hard and plays by the rules," the rules don't always apply in the Clinton White House. Critics recall the infamous haircut on the runway, the summary firing of the travel staff, the use of the FBI to investigate the travel operation. "The Clinton message is 'I'm pure,' " said a veteran of the Reagan White House, " 'I'm above the law.' It's almost Nixonian. And it's a tragic flaw...