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...People in my world want moderation, not rollback. Republicans want to turn back the moral clock to 50 years ago, banning books and all, and that don't sit right," she said...
...seedy Manhattan hotel lobby in 1928, Hughie is an old-fashioned tale--even the clock on the wall ticks in waltz tempo. And Erie Smith (Pacino) is an old-fashioned gambler, a loser out of Damon Runyon. For Erie, horseplaying is a sacred vocation. "I'd rather sleep in the same stall with old Man o' War," he says, "than make the whole damn Follies." Down on his luck, he has the sour, insistent patter of a guy without dolls, a sharpie gone flat. Tonight he's got nothing better to do than talk to a taciturn desk clerk...
...accident that Travis Tritt sang, in the convention's closing hymn, "I wish I could turn the clock back/to the way my daddy said it was before." Nor that the most powerful moment of Bob Dole's acceptance speech came when he invoked the honor of the father he loved, standing all the way on the train from Kansas to Michigan to visit the son he thought was dying in the hospital. For months the campaign has been played as a custody fight--who would be the better father of our country; whom would you trust, Clinton or Dole...
...nightclub and mix their scenes with live music and audience participation, is becoming more and more popular as the city's hordes of twentysomethings desperately search for new places to channel their must-have-something-fun-to-do-on-a-Friday-night energies. Every evening at six o'clock, local teenagers and anyone else who feels like listening (regardless of their predominately atheistic beliefs) crowd a Catholic church on Broadway, right in the middle of the gay district, to watch a choir of monks sing their nightly praises. Jacked up four by fours scuttle among skyscrapers downtown, and many...
...says Harry Brandon, the FBI's former deputy assistant director in charge of international terrorism and a supervisor of the Pan Am 103 case. "We tend to think terrorists are invincible, that they're smart as hell, and often they're not." Just lucky. "All you need is a clock and an explosive that's powerful enough," says Ronay. On Pan Am Flight 103, the bomb was the size of a coffee cup, but it happened to be placed near the skin of the plane, where it broke through the fuselage and weakened the frame of the aircraft, causing...