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...than an aspirant to the mantle of Lenin. But if jet lag, fatigue and generous helpings of Jack Daniel's occasionally took their toll, Boris Yeltsin, 58, the former Moscow party boss who has achieved unusual visibility and enormous popularity as one of Mikhail Gorbachev's most acerbic critics, still impressed Americans with his charm and appreciation of the U.S. His knack for an ingratiating riposte was apparent at John and Vicki Hardin's hog farm in Danville, Ind. "Would Mr. Yeltsin like to see some pigs?" the host asked. "I'd prefer to see some Americans," Yeltsin cracked...
...reinvented itself time and time again for the sake of a new hustle. In 1936 its mayor claimed that the Miss America Pageant was a "cultural event." (True, a contestant in last week's pageant -- the 63rd -- did sing an aria from Die Fledermaus, but the event is still more about swimwear than opera.) During the Prohibition era, it was the East Coast Babylon for bootlegging, brothels and betting, but in 1946 Atlantic City tried to persuade the United Nations to settle there, citing its "historically noncontroversial background." In the late '50s the Chamber of Commerce campaigned to make local...
...carnation in his lapel, kept a paternalistic eye on the rackets, the bordellos and the firehouses from a suite at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel. From the 1890s until 1972, Atlantic City was ruled by a succession of political machines, and while nothing quite as feudal remains today, political leaders still seem to exhibit the high-handed habits of that era. Only eight years ago, the city commissioners passed a resolution ordering all municipal employees to show them "respect and obedience...
Gambling may have brought to Atlantic City a Pompeian profusion of statues, but the city's long-standing sense of carnival still flourishes. The casino boutiques may sell Gucci leather, but the Boardwalk is a bazaar of plastic beads, mugs shaped like women's breasts, and baby sand sharks in glass jars. When Las Vegas was nothing but a jukebox in the desert, Atlantic City had clam-eating tournaments and midget boxing matches; today one of the Boardwalk's main attractions is Celestine Tate, a disabled woman who lies on a stretcher like a beached mermaid and plays a Casio...
SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE: 15TH ANNIVERSARY (NBC, Sept. 24, 9 p.m. EDT). Still crazy -- or at least trying to be -- after all these years, the once groundbreaking comedy show waxes nostalgic in a prime-time special...