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...funeral when weighty affairs of state were being decided. But after eight months in the Oval Office, Bush tops even Ronald Reagan in popularity (70% approval), a reversal of fortune that has plunged the out party into another of its periodic identity crises. Last week, in an orgy of finger pointing, party stalwarts from New York Governor Mario Cuomo to national chairman Ron Brown asked, in effect, Where are the Democrats...
...Atlantic City they do, which is why the Boardwalk reflects both a grandiloquence imported from Las Vegas and an insistence on bourgeois comfort. Parading past the statue of Caesar Augustus (finger aloft, as if hailing a cab), the Boardwalk crowd offers an unself-conscious mixture: round middles barely disguised by oversize T shirts or bulging above cinched-in belts; conical straw hats; white socks in white sandals; baseball caps on balding heads; male decolletage; painted eyebrows; sequins in the daytime; polyester stretch pants; factory-knit acrylic cardigans; lots of polka dots; colors usually found only at the extremities...
...complimentary: the 48-minute helicopter ride, the mauve suite, even the caviar. Never mind that just about everyone else in the casino is dressed for mowing the lawn, Wishnick slinks into an azure silk ensemble with a slit up the side, slips a new seven-carat ring on her finger, straps on a pair of silver slippers and sips champagne before setting off for a meal of lobster thermidor. Then it's "Woooooooooow. O.K., roll those babies! Come on! Numbers! Numbers! Numbers!" As Wishnick screams louder and starts to shake all over, the crowd begins chanting, "Eight! Eight! Eight...
...Thank God Beth's finger's were long enough," Johnston said. "That play was completely Beth's whole-hearted effort. She played amazing all day--she really saved...
...Gear's shoes suggest sex and Southern California. One of the brand's top sellers is Street Brats ($60), with contrasting-color laces, marbleized leather and tongues that stick straight up. L.A. Gear was started in 1979 by Robert Greenberg, 49, a hairdresser turned entrepreneur who keeps his finger on the pulse of California shopping culture. Says he: "I'm a mallaholic. I need to go to a mall at least twice a week, or I get the shakes." Sales at L.A. Gear accelerated from $11 million in 1985 to $224 million in 1988 and are expected to more than...