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...average politician whose life inspires a Movie of the Week. It takes an individual of uncommon theatricality, flamboyance and self-regard to let his life serve as the basis for an all-singing, all-dancing revue. And so it was announced that Minnesota Governor JESSE VENTURA had signed over the rights to his life story to be adapted for a Broadway musical, tentatively titled The Body Ventura. The idea was hatched by Pierre Cossette, who produced The Will Rogers Follies and The Scarlet Pimpernel. Cossette plans to mount the production within 18 months, and has spoken with Baywatch star David...
Kinchla did not say how many phones had been disconnected this month, but said the number was not uncommon for the spring term...
...have a chance to confer with the assistant in advance, of course--and we all like to be called "assistants," not "graders"--you may be able to ferret out one or two cosmic assumptions of his own; seeing them in your bluebook, he can only applaud your uncommon perception. For example, while most graders are politically unconcerned, not all are agnostic. This is an older generation, recall. Some may be tired of St. Augustine flattened by a phrase or reading about the "Xian myth...
...then again, he might just come out ahead in this struggle. President Clinton also managed to raise his approval ratings amidst all the allegations around his private life. Anyway, falling in love, getting divorced and remarrying while holding a public office is not all that uncommon. Thomas Klestil, Austria's current President, did exactly that, and he's in his second term now--after being reelected right between his divorce and his second marriage...
Sonique is a British dance-pop singer whose grabby new single, It Feels So Good, is scaling the charts with uncommon speed. Just a few months ago, Sonique's fame was limited to the British dance-club circuit. Then, in February, a deejay in Tampa, Fla., received a copy of a Sonique single from a visiting friend. He gave it a spin. The audience that developed around It Feels So Good was large and enthusiastic--and happened to include Universal Music chairman Doug Morris and Jimmy Iovine, head of Universal's Interscope subsidiary. The two record moguls decided to make...