Word: torch
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...Paula Jones by the armies of conservatism, begun by "friend" and spokeswoman Susan Carpenter-McMillan, is now complete. There is a new lead attorney ? Donovan Campbell, Jr. of the Dallas firm Rader, Campbell, Fisher & Pyke ? who was previously known for leading a picketing of a Dallas production of ?Torch Song Trilogy.? There is also a new financier ? the conservative fund-raising outfit The Rutherford Institute ? now that Paula's pockets (and her legal fund) are apparently empty...
PASSING THE TORCH The death of Jeanne Calment caused a stir among centenarians: Who would claim the title of world's oldest person? Calls inundated the offices of The Guinness Book of World Records, official arbiter of longevity. Herewith a few of the candidates in the vintage sweepstakes...
...conclusion: the teenage troublemakers of the past few years are fast growing up. And youngers, apparently, are not taking up the torch. Which must be reassuring to the boomers, who would love to see drugs back where they remember them: back in college...
...married woman, and get away with it, in Hi-De-Ho (1933). The films also showcase future stars, like Rogers, perky and alluring from the start, and Cary Grant, who made his movie debut in Chang's Singapore Sue. Some stars Hollywood couldn't figure out. Merman, setting a torch to After You're Gone in Be Like Me, is tough, sexy, charismatic--a singing Stanwyck. But film musical heroines were soft creatures, and Merman was sent back to Broadway...
...that, said the court, could have crippled the Internet, which now has some 50 million users. Indeed, wrote Stevens in his 15-page opinion, the CDA threatened "to torch a large segment of the Internet community." Clearly the Justices, like many newbies before them, were swept up in the global reach and boundless potential of the medium. "Any person with a phone line can become a town crier with a voice that resonates farther than it could from any soapbox," Stevens observed...