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TERRY MCMILLAN'S BREEZY POP NOVEL WAITING TO EXHALE (Viking; $22) is one more battle communique in the war between the sexes, notable chiefly because all the condo-owning, Z-car-driving protagonists are black. True, these four good- looking, thirtyish women friends and the men who do them wrong, wronger and wrongest are the whitest black people ever seen off the set of The Cosby Show. This is high-class soap opera, and the big, unstated joke is that the soap is Ivory. That may be why Pocket Books just bid $2.64 million for paperback rights. The subliminal pitch...
There was a light drizzle, but in Italy that is considered good luck for the bride. Only a week after word of their engagement leaked out, Designer Calvin Klein, 43, and Kelly Rector, thirtyish, an assistant in his firm, stitched the knot in a secretive civil ceremony in Rome. Why Rome? "I've never been before," smiled the radiant bride. The couple slipped quietly into the red room of the historic Campidoglio on Capitoline Hill and exchanged vows in front of the councilman for the city police. (The mayor sent his regrets.) Afterward, the pair posed briefly for photographers...
MARRIED. Kris Kristofferson, 46, gravel-throated singer-songwriter (Me and Bobby McGee, Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down) and actor (Heaven's Gate, Rollover); and Lisa Meyers, thirtyish, a recent Pepperdine law school graduate; he for the third time, she for the second; in Malibu, Calif...
...guerrillas identified themselves as members of the outlawed Cinchonero Popular Liberation Movement, a small revolutionary group that was named for the martyred leader of an obscure 19th century revolt. Their leader turned out to be a stocky, thirtyish chain smoker known as Chief 1, who impressed the group of hostages with his relative calm and compassion. He released the wounded and female hostages when the government said it would not negotiate otherwise. As time wore on, the gunmen freed other prisoners in groups...
...full sex life often think they will be safe with partners who already have the disease. But the sufferer can be reinfected in different parts of the body, or may receive a different strain of the disease. "I probably wouldn't see another person with herpes," says a thirtyish New Yorker. "I know that sounds awful, but I can't risk re-exposure and a possible parallel case...