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...sleeper in the Republican primary is Mike Antonovich, 46, a Los Angeles County supervisor who has toiled long and loyally in the campaigns of Ronald Reagan and California's popular Republican Governor George Deukmejian. Antonovich has some novel ideas (illegal Mexican immigrants should be stopped at the border by armed U.S. soldiers; gay men should combat the AIDS epidemic by going straight). He also has a habit of answering specific questions with tiresome civics lessons that begin, "Under our Constitution, there are three branches of Government...
...chief has further angered her subordinates by limiting smoking on the job. Each precinct is allowed only one office and one squad car in which smoking is permitted. Harrington has reprimanded officers who abuse citizens. Last year she banned the use of the carotid ("sleeper") hold after a Portland policeman used the neck grip and inadvertently killed a black security guard who had no criminal record. Two officers responded to the ban by selling T shirts inscribed DON'T CHOKE 'EM. SMOKE 'EM. Harrington had the officers fired, but they were reinstated by an arbitrator...
This project, an adaptation of Kate Chopin's novel The Awakening, has begun to attract attention as a modestly budgeted sleeper that just might translate high-minded feminism into box-office success. Walker confides to his agent his plan to check on the proceedings, and he responds with weary irony: "Terrific, Gordo. You're just what they need down there. You can hassle Lee and piss on the press. Get drunk, start fights. Just like old times, right...
Although the three inventors have yet to obliterate the tasks of ironing, dusting, or doing laundry, they have brought society a little closer to the world of Woody Allen's Sleeper with their motile vacuuming contraption...
...Jazz Greats and Great Jazz: seminar, Jacob Sleeper Hall, 871 Commonwealth...