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...During all that fuss about ring around the collar, nobody asked why he didn't wash his neck," Kilbourne said...
...never admit it -- they'd say it's a form of movie idolatry endemic only to Hollywood -- but they love to stargaze. They will put an attractive actress on-screen for 1 1/2 hours and mostly . . . just . . . watch . . . her. She poses at a window, she listens to the phone ring; in a moment of high agitation she may drag on a Gauloise. A vision of dyspeptic distress, she is a modernist pinup for the monastic voyeur behind the camera. When the woman is lovely, pouty Juliette Binoche, and the director is Krzysztof Kieslowski, the picture can become...
...draw. Last year actor Charlie Sheen paid $93,500 for the ball that dribbled through the legs of Red Sox first baseman Bill Buckner in a misplay that ultimately cost Boston the 1986 World Series. At last month's sale, Leland's auctioned off Buckner's Series runner-up ring accompanied by a note: "Hope you enjoy my ring. The nightmare of 1986 is over! I'm off the hook. Your pal, Bill Buckner." Ring and note brought an astonishing $33,000. Even Pete Rose's good-behavior voucher from doing prison time for tax evasion fetched $770. "I know...
Peering into the (formerly) moonlit sky at 1 a.m., we caught a glimpse of a lopsided ring of light just before the satellite was completely occluded by the Earth passing between...
...Attorney in Miami focused on Guillen. The general, who has since retired as head of the anti-drug unit, was offered immunity from having his own words used against him -- and came to Miami to testify. According to DEA agents, he has confessed to setting up the smuggling ring and profiting from the operations. "He cried, collapsed, admitted everything he had done," recalled a DEA agent. Guillen, he said, "was trying to do exactly what Noriega did -- no worse, no better." The general has since returned home; he failed to appear before a grand jury earlier this month...