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...hustling lottery tickets in San Salvador. The rest of his time he whiles away in the sprawling shanty village of Zacamil on the edge of the capital, waiting for the government to build him a new house from a nearby pile of concrete blocks. While his two children splash through streams of urine and dirty water, Guerrero reflects on the prospects for his -- and his country's -- future. "Peace would be nice," he murmurs, "but it won't change my life much...
During the 1950s, BOBBY DARIN was a teen idol who wrote and sang some classic rockers (Splish Splash, Dream Lover), then decided to turn himself into Sinatra. No one ever said Darin was modest. That brashness, in fact, was part of his whole charming, overreaching package, which is welcomely represented on two Atlantic CDs called The Best of Bobby Darin (Splish Splash and Mack the Knife). Mack, of course, became Darin's signature song, making him equally at home in supper clubs and on American Bandstand. He went to Hollywood, made movies, played Vegas and laid down some exceptional, swinging...
...Klein's splash going to grow into a full-blown trend? "I'm sure there will be imitators," says Ronald Galotti, publisher of Vanity Fair. "But we probably won't do it again." Fashion magazines, however, have been hard hit by the recession, and are likely to be inspired. Elle slapped a videotape, a scented card and an order form for Estee Lauder's SpellBound perfume onto 14,000 copies of its September issue in 10 cities. "It's terrific. The excitement factor works," says Elle's publisher, Lawrence Burstein, who says he's working on similar ideas...
JOURNALISTS and their editors seem to get extremely indignant about plagiarism. A Boston University dean plagiarized his commencement speech? We'll splash it all over the front pages all summer long. A New York Times writer plagiarized an article about the plagiarized commencement speech? Run with that baby...
FOOD Vinegar is making a splash among the tart...