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...stir-craziness is the incentive to go to Bean's, gasoline is the fuel. "We use our parents' gas credit card," explains Boston College student Michelle A. Leone. She and three friends left Boston early in the afternoon and drove up Route IA, which runs along the Atlantic coast, she says. They stopped at Benetton, where they spent $71.40, before heading to Bean...
...after the White House. Sure enough, a gyrating lad in undershorts dashes into the Oval Office wildly plucking a guitar and dancing like a man possessed. Wait a minute. That was no Tom Cruise playing the President's son. That was the President's son. "I thought it would stir things up," explained Ronald Prescott Reagan...
...says, does not like to walk barefoot on hotel carpets. Arriving in Paris, Kissinger is invited to the Elysee Palace for a chat with President Francois Mitterrand; in Peking, Deng Xiaoping suggests a talk over tea. Back in New York City, the famous face and graveled accent cause a stir even at the Four Seasons, Manhattan's power-lunch emporium...
...startled press corps quickly swung into action. At 9:10 a.m. the first wire service bulletins were transmitted reporting the collapse of the government of President-for-Life Jean-Claude Duvalier. If the announcement caused a stir in newsrooms across the country, it probably did not compare with the reaction at the Department of State. Within moments, officials appeared in the pressroom to warn reporters that Washington had no confirmation of Duvalier's fall. The official disclaimer came at 1:45 p.m. at the daily State Department press briefing. "As of now," Spokesman Bernard Kalb said, "our information is that...
...churned out Lawrence and the Arabs (1927), a biography of his friend T.E. Lawrence that was frankly designed to sell. It did. His own autobiography, Goodbye to All That (1929), was more than a parting shot at an England he could no longer abide. Graves intended the book to stir outrage and sales, and he succeeded. Settled in splendid self-exile on the Spanish island of Majorca, he countered mounting debts by writing the historical novel I, Claudius...