Word: stillings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...virus. The exchange is routine and ritualistic, like a coin toss before a football game. I was watching and noticed that Marylin Star's driver's license read Kathryn Akahoshi, prompting me to ask why this blond had a Japanese name. She had become a stripper in Calgary while still a teenager, hitting Los Angeles in the mid-'90s to enter the adult-video business and then diving into a marriage with a Japanese businessman. The couple subsequently divorced. She was articulate and confident, and I got the feeling that for her, real life was what you did while looking...
...Slinky, Elizabeth Bernard almost stopped believing in the e-commerce Santa Claus. The Louisiana mother of three and veteran online shopper chose her presents at Sears' wishbook.com way back on Dec. 6--well within the holiday-delivery comfort zone. But by Dec. 14, her $250 box of goodies was still stuck in cyber limbo. She dialed customer service, and a cheery representative told Bernard that her order didn't exist. More than 10 anguished calls later, she clicked on FAO Schwarz fao.com) which rushed the full wish list to her in time to avoid tears under the tree. But Bernard...
Last week the Vermont Supreme Court agreed with them, sort of. The court ruled, as no appellate court ever had, that gay couples have a right to the same benefits as heterosexual couples--with one monumentally symbolic exception. Same-sex couples still cannot obtain a marriage license...
...President Bill Clinton's accomplishments has been to restore the strength of Franklin Roosevelt's legacy by reforming welfare and conquering runaway deficits while still showing how government could help average citizens. He's written a fascinating piece about what Roosevelt means today. Doris Kearns Goodwin, author of a best-selling book on Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt, is a great historian and a wonderful writer. Her biographical essay on Roosevelt captures, in a moving way, his personality and historic significance...
...produce last year about pioneering sex researcher Alfred Kinsey fell apart during the development process. A film about disco icons the Village People derailed when they couldn't obtain creative control. An homage to the kid-show character H.R. Pufnstuf came close to being produced several times but still hasn't been made. And then there are the dozens of off-center biopic ideas that people are continually bringing them--baseball manager Billy Martin, TV preacher Gene Scott, sideshow freak Johnny Eck, pin-up girl Bettie Page...