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...looking for ways to present himself as a dominating figure. During the planning for his trip to the U.S. for last week's 50th anniversary of the U.N., he tried to wangle an invitation for a full-scale state visit to Washington. But the Clinton Administration, mindful of how sour Congress's attitude toward China had become, invited him to Washington only at the less imperial level of a "working visit." Jiang balked and ended up settling for the rendezvous with Clinton in New York. Even then there was a last-minute hitch. The day before the meeting, China insisted...
...Ireland Eliesse Basinger-Baldwin grows up, her daddy will laugh when he tells the story of the day she was brought home from the hospital and he lost his temper with a free-lance videographer who was trying to capture the moment. But for now things are a little sour. Alan Zanger claims ALEC BALDWIN punched him in the face and knocked him over. Recounted Zanger: "He said, 'You got what you deserved.'" The police--not entirely trusting, perhaps, of this version of events--had Zanger put Baldwin under citizen's arrest before they would book the actor themselves. Baldwin...
...PUCC does more harm than help in the progress to a real student government. Its obviously selective membership, its cache of specialized issues, and its breathtaking ambition--or foolishness--(and I prefer the latter) will sour caring students' hopes for the U.C. long into the future. Until then, I'll see you on a cold October night at the Gala Ball...
...Things sour when Cristal tries to tighten her grip on her grip on her protege. So when the aging Goddess "accidentally" breaks her leg falling down the stairs, everyone knows where the blame lies. Nomi rises to stardom, or her idea of it anyway, even snatching away Cristal's flaky boyfriend in the process...
...titled "Manhattan Fantastica," is a fairly irresistible event. You would need to be a bear not to enjoy its charm, its faux-naif artifice, its overwhelming campiness and its evocation of a period in the history of the American art world be tween the wars that now, at the sour close of the 20th century, seems remote and glittering, like something enclosed in a bell jar. This was the moment when New York, pupating into a modernist capital, contained all the other buzz-word News-new woman, new paganism, new verse, the New Negro and the New Republic...