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...completed forms and received in exchange a small, sterile cup. The smiling woman directed him to a little room, sparsely decorated with a chair, sink, mirror, television and selection of recent Playboy and Penthouse magazines. Mark disappeared behind the door and switched the label above the Knob from "vacant" to "occupied...
After a months-long search, President Clinton chose Deval Patrick, 37, to fill the post of Assistant Attorney General in charge of the civil rights division, still vacant a year after Clinton took office. Patrick was previously a partner in a Boston law firm and a litigator with the N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense and Educational Fund. Two previous candidates, Lani Guinier and John Payton, were scuttled...
Personally, I'm for both feminism and nonviolence. I admire the male body and prefer to find the penis attached to it rather than having to root around in vacant lots with Ziploc bag in hand. But I'm not willing to wait another decade or two for gender peace to prevail. And if a fellow insists on using his penis as a weapon, I say that, one way or another, he ought to be swiftly disarmed...
...created in the '50s, Vegas' Strip was a mutant kind of American main drag, an absurdly overscaled Main Street for cars instead of people. Everywhere else in the country the shopping mall was replacing the traditional downtown. But now the Strip in Las Vegas has come full circle, its vacant stretches filling in with so many new hotels and casinos that what had been the ultimate expression of car culture has masses of tourists walking from Bally's to Caesars to Treasure Island, and from the Luxor to the Excalibur to the MGM Grand. The Strip is virtually...
...Hoffa and most of Oliver Stone's psychodramas were December releases. The reason is coincidence: Christmas Day also marks the start of the last eligible week for the year's Oscar nominees to be released, and that's the cue for superserioso films. So audiences in search of vigorously vacant entertainment this holiday season will find Mrs. Doubtfire and not much else. The rest is state torture, mortal prejudice, mass death. Instead of tidings of joy, Hollywood offers the writhings...