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...Patrick's Roadhouse, a hot-dog stand turned diner that sits at show- business ground zero, on the Pacific Coast Highway between Malibu and Hollywood, fresh slabs of bacon sputter on the grill while movie moguls gossip about the wife of a top studio executive and a national politician. The interior is pure beachfront eclectic, crammed with mismatched furniture, bullhorns, rubber snakes, paintings of World War II flying aces, antique mirrors, numberless pieces of nautical kitsch. It's not only the campy charm, the soulful coffee or the cheap and un-California-ishly cholesterol-rich menu that keeps this dive...
These past few weeks, only a sadist could take pleasure in watching Stephanopoulos sputter as he tried to explain to skeptical -- and even scornful -- reporters the abject reinstatement of five employees from the White House travel office who had been summarily fired a week earlier. And only Saturday Night Live's writers could enjoy the spectacle of Myers trying to defend the White House's farcical attempt to turn a female TV reporter into a presidential makeup artist during a Clinton visit to New Hampshire. Why had a White House staff member asked the local journalist, who was about...
...retain barriers to American farm exports: they have "held their breath and stomped their little feet," he said in an interview last week. Publicly, he has threatened retaliation against half a dozen "unfair" trade practices by the Europeans, the Japanese and others. And in response to foreign officials who sputter about his "bullying" tactics, he says with a tight smile and easy Tennessee drawl, "I think our message is getting through...
While Western culture holds fast to the idea that true love flames forever (the movie Bram Stoker's Dracula has the Count carrying the torch beyond the grave), nature apparently meant passions to sputter out in something like four years. Primitive pairs stayed together just "long enough to rear one child through infancy," says Fisher. Then each would find a new partner and start all over again...
Meanwhile, women's campaigns began to sputter. Despite the success of feminist fund raisers, most women still occupy an economic class where a $100- a-plate luncheon counts as a new blazer or a dental visit forgone. In Kansas, Democratic challenger Gloria O'Dell raised barely $100,000 compared with incumbent Bob Dole's $2 million. California's Barbara Boxer and Pennsylvania's Lynn Yeakel found themselves too broke to counter their opponents' attack ads until late in the campaign...