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Next, Disney World was a happy and uneventful stop. Then the Dallas barbecue was a hazard only to gymnasts: for them, just to whiff Texas barbecue is to risk going to bed as Nadia Comaneci and waking up as Shelley Winters. Finally, a little regretfully, the team disbanded. "Celebrity's been a big change for me," Retton said. "In a way it's really neat. But it won't change me. I'm still just plain Mary Lou. Meeting the President was neat. I'm a little sad it's over after nine years...
...Hell is a city much like London," Shelley once wrote. "A populous and smoky city. . ./Small justice shown, and still less pity." The London that impressed him in 1819 as a metropolitan inferno had just over 1 million inhabitants, hardly more than today's Bronx. Yet though London has swollen tenfold since then, it has been overtaken by still faster-growing hells: not only Mexico City but Cairo, Calcutta, Shanghai and others. By the end of the century, according to the U.N., at least 22 cities will have populations of more than 10 million, and 60 will have more...
...Oxford English Dictionary, "to lay waste, ravage, pillage, spoil." Shakespeare used it in Coriolanus when he had the tribune Sicinius ask, "Where is this viper/ That would depopulate the city?" John Milton's History of England referred to military forces "depopulating all places in their way," and Shelley wrote in Lines Written Among the Euganean Hills of "thine isles depopulate...
Cheers (NBC). Now in its second season, this barroom sitcom has found its saucy stride and, in Stars Ted Danson and Shelley Long, has created a mismatched pair that could give Tracy and Hepburn a run for their moxie...
Faerie Tale Theatre (Showtime). These slightly fractured but never completely Grimm tales, produced by Actress Shelley Duvall, give a hip, witty twist and dreamy visual style to storybook classics...