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Jones maintains that Clinton's alleged come-on was harassment because she was an Arkansas state employee in 1991. After refusing Clinton's advances, she says, she was treated badly at work, transferred and denied promotions. Because the federal statute of limitations bars harassment suits after six months, Jones is suing instead for infliction of "emotional distress," as well as deprivation of civil rights and defamation...
Lauda Air reluctantly agreed to withdraw the offending magazine from circulation, saying that the cartoonist's intention had been misinterpreted. Was the illustration a come-on aimed at pedophiles? Let the reader judge: the ad consisted of a mock postcard. On one side was a drawing of a bare-breasted little girl in a heart-shaped frame with the inscription "From Thailand with Love." The greeting on the back, signed by "Werner, Gunter, Fritzl, Morsel and Joe," read, "Got to close now. The tarts in the Bangkok Baby Club are waiting...
...people to sign up, phone salesmen literally promise callers the world. This year it's the sunny Caribbean. Eastern Europe, Kuwait and Australia were last year's come-on. One man was told his credit-card debt would be paid off; another was assured his employer would fly his dog overseas. A Chicago woman believed an agency that told her Iran was hiring female construction workers. Three construction workers in Decatur, Illinois, thought they had got a real deal with a "buddy package" to work on hotels and casinos in Aruba in the Netherlands Antilles. "What suckers we were," says...
...least typical hit -- Down at the Twist and Shout, the Cajun-ragin' Grammy winner from her 1990 album, Shooting Straight in the Dark -- is a tribute to a place that no longer exists (a dance hall in Bethesda, Maryland). The new album's title tune sounds like a come-on to a quick affair until you listen to the verse: a poignant flashback of first love, first loss. Carpenter writes elegies for lives gone sour and places sorely missed. In these songs, love is - what we used...
...enough to make you miss lines like "Come here often?" The newest cool come-on in the Southland is "I'm gonna treat you so well, I'm gonna wish you were me." Save money: buy a mirror...