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Most Overexposed Underachiever Bart Simpson, the caustic cartoon kid who starred in a hit prime-time series, got his bug-eyed mug on everything from T shirts to key chains. Bill Cosby, eat his shorts...
Speaking to the Congress hours later, Gorbachev sounded as if he could not quite figure out what had hit him. Shevardnadze, he said, had given no inkling of what he was about to do, and that was "what hurts me." Gorbachev had in fact been planning to elevate his old friend to the new post of Vice President. The turmoil in the Soviet Union made this the worst time for Shevardnadze to jump ship, Gorbachev added, and "I condemn" him for it. . Nonetheless, he pleaded for the Foreign Minister to reconsider. But Vitali Churkin, Shevardnadze's spokesman had already said...
...Chernyak hit on a central irony. While Gorbachev seems to be relying more and more on the army, KGB and other conservatives to buttress his presidential powers and save what remains of perestroika, the right seems convinced that it can do very well without Gorbachev. Many of its members regard him with open contempt as a leader who has reduced the Soviet Union, once a proud superpower, to literal beggary, making it dependent on food and other economic aid from the West...
...Fair in Love and Show Biz Andrew Lloyd Webber brought Aspects of Love to Broadway in more ways than one. Critics found the hit musical's score overwrought and the plot unlikely. In real life, the composer highlighted one of love's least admirable aspects when he announced a separation from wife Sarah Brightman and helpfully included the name of his mistress in the press release...
CONNECTICUT has an 8% sales tax, one of the nation's highest, which once compensated handsomely for the fact that the state had no income tax. With consumers on a buying binge, the state could afford to let spending rise 59% between 1984 and '88. Then recession hit, the shopping spree ended and sales- tax revenue was reduced to a trickle. For this fiscal year, Connecticut is looking at a $500 million shortfall, which is expected to triple in the next. That would amount to 20% of the state's projected $7.9 billion budget for fiscal 1991, proportionately the highest...