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...sweet clarity of her Honolulu youth (Gus Kahn's 1925 Ukulele Lady). Songs like Laughing Matters, I'm Beautiful and I'm Hip give the album the sassy intimacy of a pep talk from an old friend. But Midler is not aging; those pipes are still brass-bold and silk-smooth. At 52, Bette's still best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Bette Midler: Bathhouse Betty | 9/21/1998 | See Source »

With Charlton Heston as its newly elected president [SPECIAL REPORT, July 6], the National Rifle Association hopes to appeal to mainstream America. The plan may backfire. Even an actor who has portrayed Moses can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. And though Heston's celebrity attracts media attention, the hateful sentiments conveyed by that golden voice will more likely guarantee a continuing decline in N.R.A. membership. Heston's outspoken and controversial reflections may win the applause of the right wing, but his inflammatory rhetoric is repugnant to most Americans, including real sportsmen. KATHLEEN GREGG Pearl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 27, 1998 | 7/27/1998 | See Source »

...Family History Center in Boca Raton for more than 10 years, has traveled through the South and to Europe, and had her own history come alive when she talked to someone who remembered a great-grandfather in Missouri, a circuit-riding Baptist minister who, she says, "wore a tall silk hat and a swallowtail coat and taught hellfire and brimstone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Growing Your Family Tree | 7/13/1998 | See Source »

Tuesday, 1:08 p.m., the U.S. embassy in Skopje. Holbrooke and Hill meet with Rugova. It's 90[degrees]F., but the Kosovar novelist and literature professor arrives wearing a sweater, coat and red silk ascot. As the men sit down, Holbrooke asks Rugova if he wants to remove his jacket. "No," Rugova responds. "I'm an Albanian snake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mission Impossible | 7/6/1998 | See Source »

...limits to visitors, and the exact location of the grave is not marked. But visitors will be able to stand at the water's edge, look at the house, tour a museum (built in former stables) and view Diana's schoolgirl letters, her princess outfits and her stunning 1981 silk bridal dress. Nearly 150,000 tickets -- called "invitations to visit" -- have been sold. (It is said some 2,000 are still available and that there is an active black market for the invitations.) The cost is $15 for adults, $12 for senior citizens and $8 for children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Diana's Ground | 7/1/1998 | See Source »

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