Word: steven
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While former White House intern Monica Lewinsky makes headlines for her immunity deal with investigator Kenneth Starr, President Clinton and First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton are planning to be guests at Steven Spielberg and Kate Capshaw's estate in the Hamptons this weekend. On their datebook: three Democratic fund-raisers that could net $1 million. On Friday it's a $25,000-a-couple dinner at the home of investment banker Bruce Wasserstein. On Saturday: First, it's a $5,000-a-plate event hosted by composer Jonathan Sheffer and Dr. Christopher Barley, followed by a bash hosted by Alec...
...victim in the Tawana Brawley case? Tawana? It was such a parenthetical sadness--though also a stroke of cunning--that she was led to such a degrading fantasy, herself as garbage. But the unambiguous casualty was a white assistant prosecutor from Dutchess County named Steven Pagones. Tawana's was not a harmless lie. Once the story went public, it attracted three professional race men named C. Vernon Mason, Alton Maddox and Al Sharpton, lawyers who arrived to work as Tawana's handlers and to demagogue the case in the media. The three identified Pagones as one of the white rapists...
...breeze blowing in off the sea. But there's something just slightly off about the image. Old Glory looks, well, old in this backlighted image--thin, faded, antique, like the unambiguous emotions it used to stir in an age less given to irony and selfishness than our own. Steven Spielberg, in his new film, Saving Private Ryan, wants us to think about that, about how "the deep pride we once felt in our flag" has given way "to cynicism about our colors...
...that sound you hear is Oscar buzz for Steven Spielberg, whose 'Saving Private Ryan' opens nationwide...
...right? "We found that the truth was somewhere in between," says Dr. Steven Bloom, an obstetrician at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas and the lead author of the study. Bloom and his colleagues examined 1,067 moms-to-be with routine pregnancies and randomly divided them into a group who walked during the first stage of labor and another group who stayed in bed. To their surprise, the researchers found that walking didn't shorten the labor or reduce the need for pain killers, nor did it lower the rate of C-sections. But a full...