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That is campaign consultant James Carville's maxim -- and it applies to popular entertainment even more than running for office. So you can imagine the frenzy in the book world when publishers were offered an age-old story line with a modern twist: boy meets girl from the wrong party; boy loses girl to rival presidential campaign; and, after the election, boy and girl reconcile and marry. It's Romeo and Juliet, His Girl Friday and Adam's Rib, with Bill Clinton and George Bush in supporting roles. With two publishing giants sharing the imprint, the hype machine for this...
That leaves only two more things to be done before an invasion. One is to give the last twist to the trade embargo. A team of 88 international monitors will get its last members into position along Haiti's 186-mile land border with the Dominican Republic on Sept. 13. No one expects them to be able to stop the smuggling of food and gasoline, but the inspectors will have to be given time -- perhaps a month -- to fail. That would allow Washington to issue a final get-out-or-else ultimatum, contending that it had exhausted all the alternatives...
Less than 48 hours later, Jones became another sad twist in the sorry history of Lake Providence. On the evening after his speech, Jones got together with Charles Reed, 19, a young man who was everything that Jones was not: a heavy boozer and drug user filled with sullen rage. Reed had never liked his do-gooder schoolmate Jones. "I wanted to hurt that dude the first time I seen him," Reed recalls. "It's just something about people I have when I first see them. I just don't like them." Yet on that night enmity dissolved...
More and more, however, in rock -- and also in rap and R. and B. -- men and women are forming bands in which the latter not only sing but play instruments and write songs too. Some tough all-female bands have formed that give a womanist twist to the raucous sound usually associated with all-buddy bands, but the more remarkable and successful phenomenon has been bands with men and women playing together. Very fine albums by the Cranberries and Smashing Pumpkins have sold more than a million copies each. Coed bands are also on the cutting edge...
Michael Jackson and Lisa-Marie Presley, Elvis' daughter, are in fact married, according to Lisa-Marie. In an unlikely twist that confirmed a frantic month of tabloid blare, Jackson's MJJ Productions issued a statement saying that Jackson, 35, and Presley, 26, were married 11 weeks ago in a private ceremony "outside the United States." The site of the blessed event, according to the tabs: the Dominican Republic. Said Presley: "My married name is Mrs. Lisa Marie Presley-Jackson. . . . I am very much in love with Michael, I dedicate my life to being his wife. I understand and support...