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...back on his own maiden voyage to Europe as President in May 1989--and recalling how valuable intelligence can be before a summit. "The old man had been getting signals from people in Europe," the source says, and gave his son "a little dose of realism" about the continental mood. But Bush already knew trouble awaited him, so he held a secret prep session on May 31 in the Yellow Oval Room, upstairs at the White House, and invited specialists from across the political spectrum. Sure, Dick Cheney, Colin Powell and Rice were there, along with a host of lesser...
...even counterintuitive. It argues for accepting that college-age kids are going to drink and for encouraging them to do so safely. Some campus officials recommend bowing to reality and lowering the drinking age, as 29 states did in the early '70s. By 1988, in response to the national mood against drunk driving and a threat by the Federal Government to cut off highway funding, every state had a minimum drinking...
...puts people in a romantic mood," explains Pig 'N Whistle co-owner Chris Breed, who wants to double the number of fourposter beds because of the enthusiastic response. "Customers kick back, have a nice meal and become very intimate with each other." The seductive dining usually doesn't go beyond nuzzling and kissing. But for a $300 to $500 tab (in contrast to the usual "bed menu" of $75), you can stretch out with your dinner date all night long. Or at least until closing time...
...said at the opening. The new play is a night story, a cautionary tale to tell the naive young before they drift to sleep dreaming of the perfect mate. It flicks references to other fables of sexual predation (Fatal Attraction, Play Misty for Me), while stirring a mood of increasing emotional dread. And at its heart is the notion that an artist-anyway, a novelist or playwright?is essentially a vampire, draining friends of their essence, refashioning and distorting them into fiction, creating artistic harmony through human betrayal...
...answer is soon evident: she's always in the mood for a manifesto. "There is only art," she proclaims later. "Art that must be created. Whatever the cost." Evelyn is vague about her thesis project; she calls it "this sculpture thingie." Later we learn that her medium is "two very pliable materials: the human flesh and the human will." But from the start, she shows she has the will to dominate. And Adam is an ideal subject...