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...corsage. You know . . ." the newcomer repeated, gesturing feebly toward his own chest and wrist. The clerk looked at him with new suspicion, consulted his superior by the back tulips and returned to announce through a curled lip, "We don't do corsages...
There's not much class, but plenty of struggle, at the Lipkin mansion in Beverly Hills. Oh, sure, the rich know brand names: Harry Winston's jewels drape each mandarin wrist, and much Steuben Glass stands about, waiting to be shattered; and at the funeral for the Lipkins' pet pooch, Michael Feinstein plays piano. But the Lipkins and the Hepburn-Saravians, their haughty next- door neighbors, are egalitarians when considering where their next bedmate should come from. By the end of a weekend in the country, two elegant matrons will have been seduced by their former husbands, one of whom...
...Prime Minister's attempt to invest his disgrace with honor was overshadowed only a few hours later by the news -- long anticipated by many Japanese -- that one of the key players had committed suicide. Aoki, 58, Takeshita's closest political aide for 30 years, slashed his wrist, neck and foot with a razor blade, then hanged himself with a necktie. As the man who had handled Takeshita's political finances, some newspaper commentators speculated, Aoki may have taken his life to shield the Prime Minister from possible criminal prosecution. But Aoki may simply have been following a long- standing Japanese...
...times obviously demand a bold new approach to the punishment of top political officials in this country. No more pathetic slaps on the wrist but no undue cruelty. Why not go back to the Code of Hammarabi--an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth? In other words, let the punishment fit the crime...
Detroit's Isis Thomas (6 ft.) tried to beat up Chicago's Bill Cartwright (7 ft.). Thomas is out for three weeks with a injured wrist. Somewhere in Cleveland, people are celebrating...