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...winning act. To give it that extra bounce, Cione had his dancers go topless. It shocked the island like nothing else since the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Audiences swarmed into the club, and Cione was given half the operation as a reward. He ultimately parlayed his success into a string of nine clubs...
Friends recall that if Thom dove into something, from emergency medical training to playing basketball in high school, he gave it his best. "He never made the first string, but he was always close," says Jon Turner, his English teacher and a Vietnam vet. "If he got in, he'd win the game for you." That was true whether he was square dancing as a kid or out on a county search-and- rescue mission. His steady marksmanship enabled him to bag a four-point buck, whose weathered rack sits on a fence beside his house. Around town, folks knew...
Jean Gauvin capped off the evening with a string of attacks on Asian-Americans. He talked about an engineering class that required Asian heritage for admission. He mentioned that the library was the best place to find Asians on weekend nights. He enlightened the audience with tales of his multiethnic dating competition. Japanese and Chinese women win extra points. Filipinos came in third...
...that are accordingly sumptuous. The Staatsoper and the Volksoper will play Mozart operas all season. The gilded halls of the Schonbrunn Palace, where the six-year-old Mozart once jumped into the lap of Empress Maria Theresa after one of his concerts, will be the setting for all his string quartets, as well as outdoor performances of Don Giovanni and The Marriage of Figaro...
...string of policy reversals cast something of a chill on U.S.-Soviet relations as well. Last week the superpowers agreed to postpone the presidential summit that had been scheduled for Feb. 11-13 in Moscow. The ostensible reason was the gulf war and the need for more work on a strategic- arms treaty. But the U.S. was also attempting to indicate its disapproval of the Kremlin's backsliding on reform...