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Food service was abandoned years ago, and credit cards are unheard of. The club may not be swank, but it still pulls in people from all over the world. "The other night," says Lorraine, "a young Japanese guy came in and walked around the room with his mouth open. He told me he'd dreamed of coming to this place all his life...
Roll Call breaks the news that Bono has bought a town house at a swank gated development in Georgetown. Meanwhile, after a hectic round of committee meetings, a briefing on fiscal issues, an interview with CBS News and a sit- down with a representative from the National Association of Realtors, Bono catches a flight back to Palm Springs to view flood damage and attend the film-festival gala...
...here's a movie. Three stories that begin as cliches but soon go wild and wily. A gallery of tough guys who minor in philosophy. Career-defining turns by John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson and Uma Thurman. Peppery dialogue that brings macho swank into the '90s. Quentin Tarantino's adrenaline rush of a melodrama is a brash dare to timid Hollywood filmmakers. Let's see, he says, if you can be this smart about going this...
Connie (Lisa Nosal) is the first character in the boat. As a tall leggy brunette of wealth, Nosal embodies the swank decadence of 1940s glamour. She's tougher (and taller) than most of the men. Only once does she loose her cool, when she slaps another passanger across and then has to slither back to him for reassurance. She seduces Kovacs (Dylan ) but the intimacy between them seems so forced...
...with glee at Robb headquarters, where aides were considering whether to use footage of Nancy Reagan in an ad for their candidate. Robb, after all, has been bathed in shame as well. The Democratic Party's onetime star-in-waiting has been dogged by stories about his attendance at swank parties with alleged drug users while he was Virginia's Governor and his alleged marital infidelities. While refusing to admit specific transgressions, Robb has conceded to having "let my guard down" in the past. That line, joked The Tonight Show host Jay Leno, "is just Washington talk...