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...anyone else when Bette Midler is around? It is a privilege merely to watch her walk her walks: the not-quite-ladylike mince, the executive sweep, the strumpet's strut. She lopes easily from City Sadie, the bitch goddess who spits out orders to her lab scientists ("Get tougher rats!"), to Country Sadie, struggling with her press-on nails ("I guess I should've pressed harder") and giddy with her first sip of high life in a Plaza bathroom ("Cute little soaps in the shape of swans! Could you die!"). Tomlin plays the Roses, but Midler is a fistful...
...TOUGHER THAN LEATHER (Profile). Rappers supreme, slippin' closer to the old mainstream. Music still struts, though, and the braggadocious lyrics can be smart and funny...
...familiar case history of rebelliousness -- hard scuffles, bad drugs, determined excess and scrapping to sing -- but Childs played it faster and tougher than most. At 20, trying to keep a band together, she got busted on a drug rap and did three months in a federal penitentiary. "It was," she says, with uncharacteristic understate ment, "a very big scare-the-hell-out-of-me situation." Fellow inmates included a "couple of Manson girls and murderers and all kinds of things. And Patty Hearst too. I liked her." On the outside again, Childs sought more conventional means of supporting the band...
...Dukakis has not been vague on a variety of litmus-test issues. In last week's San Francisco debate, he restated his opposition to capital punishment, boasted about the comprehensive medical-insurance program enacted in Massachusetts six weeks ago and agreed with Jesse Jackson that the U.S. should get tougher with South Africa's racist government. On most national-security questions, Dukakis sounds like the dove that...
...front-end loaders to knock down walls to get into some of these places, but as soon as we put one out of business, another springs up. We need to direct more attention from interdiction efforts to educating the user to reject drugs." Giuliani, while favoring more enforcement and tougher penalties, in part agrees. Says he: "We spend less than $500 million on treatment and education, and that is nowhere near what needs to be spent...