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...remembers a night they spent cruising up the Hudson River at a wedding reception on a yacht. "Mike and I went up on deck, and we were the only two up there," she recalls. "We were slow dancing, and I was thinking about how romantic it was. And then Mike says, 'Do you have any idea how many dead bodies there are in this river...
...Never complain, never explain," counseled Disraeli. Not Charles' motto. He is undermining the monarchy at a delicate time. His mother, an exemplary Queen, has hacked the sums paid to her relatives in return for their public engagements. She is giving up the yacht Britannia and paying for various other transport arrangements formerly supported by the public. Britain's economic woes partly account for these cutbacks, but the decline in royal popularity is also a factor: the Queen was reportedly shocked by her subjects' hostility to paying for repairs to Windsor Castle after a fire in November...
...vortex of ego and where success belongs not to those who count the beans but to those who extravagantly spoil the stars. If Barbra Streisand wanted a painting, why not buy it for her? If Dustin Hoffman was vacationing in Europe, why not provide him with a yacht? If Steven Spielberg was looking for a home in the Hamptons, why not arrange the sale for him? "It's about people, really -- realizing what they want," Ross once told Bruck...
Hard times for guy dieties, even those who are elected. George Bush, in another sketch, is fishing from the presidential yacht with Willie Horton -- got him out of prison for the afternoon, figured he owed Willie a lot -- when news breaks of an invasion of Chicago: wave after wave of squat, flat- nosed horsemen in leather skirts, waving their fists and rolling their little red eyes. Bush calls for bipartisanship and issues a statement that barbarianism is a long-term problem, no quick solutions, the answer is education. The President will, it is promised, decide soon whether to name...
Finally, on the afternoon of his 47th birthday, seven months after he took the oath of office, the President came to rest on a New England island so small it has no traffic lights. Martha's Vineyard, a 100-sq.-mi. haven of quaint shingled houses, quiet country gardens, yacht-studded harbors and stunning beaches, has many attributes to recommend it, not the least of which is that its inhabitants are sufficiently celebrity-trained so that no one stares into opera diva Beverly Sills' grocery cart at Cronig's or gawks at Jackie Onassis riding her bike near her house...