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...Mask and Spear Pub and Lounge is a 21-and-over, invitation-only bar. The sleek bar, replete with mirrors, stools and guest book wows visitors. The authentic African masks and spears on the walls inspired the name of the institution. Signs behind the bar list the house drinks and the benefactors of the watering hole; many people have endowed bottles in their name. The lounge encourages friendly chatting among guests...
Horwitz comments on the institution: "The Mask and Spear's countertop is finished with Supergloss, the Michael Jordan of synthetic finishes. One coat is equivalent to a whopping forty coats of polyurethane. The Mask and Spear's guest book boasts over 120 signatures, among them dignitaries from Accra, Monterrey, Budapest, and Paris. Advanced HorwitzSonic wiring carries audio power among six speakers in two rooms...only the finest materials were used in appointing the Mask and Spear--including carved South African objects obtained by Cito Horwitz, and adhesive tape from Luxembourg whose installation came at the cost of $100 term bill...
Kevin McLaughlin is at the pointy end of Bill Clinton's spear. Late last week Lieut. McLaughlin--his call sign is "Proton" because he once was a nuclear-reactor operator--sat in the ready room of his F-18 Hornet squadron aboard the U.S.S. Nimitz, a 95,000-ton nuclear-powered aircraft carrier steaming in the Persian Gulf. If Clinton decided it was time to punish Saddam Hussein for his defiance of United Nations inspectors, Proton would climb into his $28 million Hornet--the U.S. Navy's premier fighter-attack jet--and shower Iraq with...
Kala-azar itself was not the only problem. One day a patient who had gone mad threw a spear through another man's chest. Seaman operated and saved the man's life. Then she and De Wit operated on a man so riddled with tropical ulcers that his bones were exposed...
...talk shows later, she became the Princess Victim, bulimic, suicidal, betrayed by a caddish paramour with a tell-all book, trapped in a loveless marriage. But that image too was fleeting, replaced by a very '90s portrait of a shrewd operator, better at public relations than all the palace spear throwers. By the time she agreed to a divorce, she had embraced the American notion that marriage is more about self-fulfillment than sacrifice or lines of succession. She had built up such reserves of public sympathy by this time that even as she lost her status, she kept...