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...Wayne and Garth). We define ourselves by what we are not--the products we will not buy for various ethical reasons, the foods we will not eat, and the music we will not listen to. We go looking for the alternative--or at least the lesser evil--in politics (if we vote at all), in the supermarket (unless we're too hip to shop at them) and on the record store shelves...
...citizens of the more stringent military culture. Letters in service newspapers have pointed out that the armed forces would never have tolerated such behavior. Wrote an outraged correspondent in the Army Times: "There have been good troops put out of the services with a bad discharge for having committed lesser offenses than Cheney...
...minerals. She shops at Mrs. Gooch's about once a week, in addition to other vitamin shops. "I take tons of vitamin C and E," she admits, plus calcium and a daily vitamin-mineral complex. Recently she added to her regimen three tablets a day of pantothenic acid (a lesser-known vitamin) "to help me wake up." Basically, says Latimer, "I'm looking for anything to make me feel better...
...Robert Lutz, brought Eaton into the company as vice chairman and chief operating officer. If all goes as planned, he will succeed Iacocca as chairman and chief executive when the latter retires Dec. 31. Iacocca, who had sought to stay on as chairman past that date, will take the lesser but still influential post of chairman of the executive committee...
...whatever new conceit his master would visit on him. Dusted in flour, tricked up as an elephant, wrapped head to toe in Christmas-tree garlands, he had the comic gravity of Buster Keaton and the acrobatic ambiguities of a four-legged pun. The pictures made Wegman, until then a lesser-known Conceptualist, the kind of artist who gets invited on Carson and Letterman. Four years after Man Ray died in 1982, Wegman acquired Fay Ray, a chocolaty female of the same breed who has been his muse and model ever since...