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...Vegas impresarios took a dying strain of vaudeville and turned it into a highly particular Vegas style. Gamblers from Duluth and Atlanta came to see only-in-Vegas entertainments: Sinatra, Streisand, stand-up comedians, the trash rococo of Liberace, both flaunting and denying his gayness; hot-ticket singer-dancers like Ann-Margret; and shows with whiffy themes that existed as mere pretexts for bringing out brigades of suggestively costumed young women jiggling through clouds of pastel-colored smoke as overamped pop tunes blared. It was cheesy glamour, to be sure, but it was rare and one of a kind...
...Stager, Caves continues, was told that the carbon could be classified as "abandoned material that was left in a public place," and was therefore public information. Since Caves transcribed faxes over a long period of time, she must have removed cartridges from the fax machine, put them in the trash where they became "abandoned material," then lifted them out and transcribed them. "I wouldn't have done it," Caves added. "But we were desperate." Why were they so desperate? Because they were afraid that Gavin would actually succeed in balancing the museum's deficit. Had that happened, the firing...
...riots last year. In April, on the first anniversary of the turmoil, D'Agnenica distributed four 12-in.-tall plaster magenta cherubs at a prominent African-American church. She has continued to set the brightly painted angels ! on street corners, at bus stops, on walls, in parks, atop trash piles and in empty lots, always 10 to the square mile -- 1,000 in all so far, with 3,600 more to go. "The experience of seeing an angel," she says, "or even more important, when word gets out, the act of looking for an angel, would remind each person...
...changed his story: Andrea had been helping him look for aluminum cans in a Dumpster. She fell, hit her head and died, he said. Yet no body has turned up, and Andrea's mother Linda doesn't believe Davis: "Andrea would rather be grounded than take out the trash." Linda and the local authorities think somebody made away with her daughter -- and with her life's joy. "It's like we're stuck in a vacuum, with no beginning and no ending," she says...
After Congress passed the Brady Bill three weeks ago, mandating a five-day waiting period on handgun sales, gun shops saw their business jump dramatically. Semiautomatic weapons with large magazines are selling especially fast in anticipation of expanded congressional restrictions. "Brady law? It's a piece of trash," says Lyle Teague, a self-styled arms merchant at the Saxet Gun Show in San Antonio, Texas. "But you want to know something? It's doing wonders for my business." Dealers at the vast Texas flea market posted signs warning, LAST CHANCE TO STOCK UP and THESE GUNS ARE IN THE SENATE...