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...celebrity-sated audience, there's also a refreshing populism in the casting; here are people that you rarely see on TV: mixed-race characters; the devout; chubby gay men over 30. In fact, The Real World's diversity may now be cliche--gay guy, meet the Asian girl; white beatnik, meet the alcoholic. (This year's gay guy, before coming out to his housemates, coyly announced he had "a secret," and regular viewers who had witnessed previous coming outs knew in a split second what it would be. If you use that line by the show's ninth season...
...Notable caravel 41. Dissenting vote 42. Revival shout 44. Court here will decide Pinochet's immunity 46. Ali's daughter, with six straight boxing victories 49. New Deal power agcy. 50. LAX posting 51. Kenny Rogers' She Believes __ 54. They've sued Wal-Mart over bogus T shirts 58. Beatnik's interjection 59. Hands-up time 60. Sweet treat since 1912 61. Lawyers' org. 62. Vietnam-era Admiral Zumwalt 63. Country in which 12-Across is located...
Hoffmann, who called Hughes a beatnik, said Hughes was one of the few Harvard professors to publicly object...
Adopting the wardrobe of a beatnik and the eating habits of a monk, RUPERT MURDOCH is easing into a new phase of life. In the upcoming issue of Vanity Fair, Murdoch, 68, reports that his updated look, featuring a preponderance of black, is due less to WENDI DENG, 32, his wife of three months, than to his sons. "I wanted to look like them," he says, "40 years younger." To that end, he has been visiting "some institute at UCLA--they've got me on a morning drink [of] fruit and soya powder" and exercising with a trainer who "tortures...
...full of bounce and bravery; the car-gnawing, train-wrecking giant is enthusiastically educable in his genially klutzy way. But the largest fun lies in the other characters: jut-jawed Kent Mansley, the funny-dumb government agent who has bought into the whole duck-and-cover thing; Dean, the beatnik junk sculptor whose cool helps thwart Kent's heat; Hogarth's mother, an old-fashioned, benignly clueless sit-com mom. Together they create a smart live-and-let-live parable, full of glancing, acute observations on all kinds of big subjects--life, death, the military-industrial complex--that...