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These days, when Nebraskans get together to gab about the weather or the price of corn, they also enjoy speculating about the long-blooming romance between Governor Bob Kerrey, 41, and Actress Debra Winger, 30. The couple met two years ago, when Winger was filming Terms of Endearment, and folks in Lincoln (pop. 180,000) have been spotting the lovebirds ever since. Lately everyone's been getting a smile, or a scowl, out of the fact that the Ohio-born actress was stopped for speeding in the Governor's state-leased car. The fuss prompted Kerrey to cancel...
Concern about the homeless usually waits for winter, when the cold weather claims its first victims and a frozen, abandoned death stirs guilt and some compassion...
...last it's on to the geopohtically squared circle: a screaming crowd (except for the Politburo in its box, deadly quiet), pounding music, blows that resound as if someone were holding batting practice with watermelons. Can Rocky weather the terrible punishment of the early rounds? Will he get in some good licks for poor beleaguered capitalism? Will the assembled proletariat discern the greatness of his spirit and, setting aside all propaganda (and KGB) considerations, start cheering for a democratic working man? Will Rocky get the opportunity to make, of all things, a plea for détente? Only if you have...
...core." It has something to do with a life of mothering animals. Her recollection of being hit by lightning: "It felt as though sequins had been poured down my legs." Left to her own literary devices, Ehrlich sometimes lapses into fancy-pants prose. But when dealing with chores, weather and characters, her writing has a hard, clean edge, unblunted by the world she is trying to leave behind...
Reaganauts in the Defense Department accuse the uniformed brass of paying only lip service to the need to build up U.S. Special Forces. In early December, for example, the Air Force canceled an annual inspection of the First Special Operations Wing, at Hurlburt Field, Fla. Officially, bad weather was blamed for the cancellation. The real reason, according to the monthly Armed Forces Journal: all eleven helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft were down for repairs...