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Buzzwords
If you were just hired as a salesclerk for the Christmas rush, you better know the lingo: As in Krueger. A customer who keeps returning (the merchandise).As in riffraff. What veteran employees call temps.The day after Thanksgiving-the heaviest shopping day of the year.When clerks spend their breaks wandering through the mall.Customer in an ugly outfit.For “nothing fits”–customer who asks for clothing in sizes that won’t fit.
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Bonofide Pol?
Most Americans think of Sonny Bono as Cher’s disgruntled ex-husband. Even so, his 92 percent name recognition in California leads some Republican Party pros to see Bono, now mayor of Palm Springs, as a good bet to win the GOP Senate primary in the Golden State next year.
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Changing Flags?
With the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the Soviet Embassy in Washington will likely close down. Soviet trade representatives last week told their U.S. counterparts that by next spring the building will be taken over by diplomats representing the Russian Republic, congressional sources say.
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Desperately Seeking Furry Friends
Humans were not the only victims of the catastrophic fire that burned more than 3,000 homes in Oakland, Calif., last month. Thousands of pets were killed or driven away by the blaze, causing hundreds of area residents to resort to desperate measures to try to find their four-legged loved ones.
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Soviet Czar
On the eve of Secretary of State James Baker’s trip to Moscow, Ukraine and Belorussia, the White House has decided to name a special czar to centralize U.S. policy on aid to the Soviet republics.
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When A Handbag Isn’t Enough
Backpacks have come a long way from book-toting student garb. Whether strapped on pack-animal style or slung casually over one shoulder, they’re the latest up-from-the-street high-fashion trend.
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Starry Eyed
A new book about the Chicago Bulls claims that Michael Jordan’s teammates think he’s self-centered. True or not, that thesis may get a lift when Sir Air opens his Michael Jordan’s Restaurant next spring in Chicago.
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States Of Mind
Three quarters of Americans 25 and older have a high-school diploma; one fifth hold a college degree. The most and least educated states: Alabama 63.2% Kentucky 64.7% Tennessee 65.4% Arkansas 67.6% Mississippi 67.7% Massachusetts 28.1% Connecticut 27.5% Maryland 27.4% Virginia 27.3% Colorado 27.0%
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Nbc News Goes Docu-Shopping
For months, NBC News has been blasted within the industry for compromising its role as a serious news organization. The critics’ latest evidence: the failure of NBC News to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Pearl Harbor with a prime-time documentary. (ABC, CBS and CNN are all doing so.) After the airing of a highly rated Pearl Harbor documentary on PBS’s “The American Experience,” NBC offered to buy the program from PBS and repackage it, But for contractual reasons, PBS couldn’t sell.
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Get Me Repaint!
It’s not the first time Goya’s “Naked Maja” has stirred controversy. The portrait scandalized Spanish society nearly 200 years ago; Goya even painted a matching ” clothed” version.
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Hill Hearing
The Senate’s having a tough time launching its heralded leak investigation of Anita Hill’s charges that she was sexually harassed by Clarence Thomas. Senate staffers say that more than a dozen prominent lawyers have been informally approached to head the inquiry–and all declined.
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Playing To The Golf Goddess
Call it Zen and the art of putting well. Spiritual golfers can now visit Japan, where golf is practically a religion anyway. In front of the Zenshoji Temple is a statue called Gorufu Kannon, which means Taking a “Golf Goddess of Mercy.” She holds a golf ball and putter.
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Willie Testimony
; Despite seven months of no-stone-unturned investigations, it appears unlikely that jurors will hear about the sexual history of William Kennedy Smith–or of the 29-year-old Florida woman who accused him of rape.
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Go To The Video
In order to publicize its opposition to “the political agenda of homosexuals,” the Oregon Citizens Alliance is selling a videocassette of last summer’s San Francisco gay-rights parades, replete with naked dancing, a transvestite Jesus and a group called Hookers From Hell.
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What Would Proust Say?
Pine trees, sea air, meadows–these are the smells people over 60 remember from their youth. But according to a new study, Americans born after 1950 have less organic olfactory memories–most notably, Vicks VapoRub, PlayDoh and Sweetarts candy. Dr. Alan Hirsch of Chicago’s Smell & Taste Treatment Research Foundation also concluded that those with unhappy childhoods were twice as likely to remember “foul odors.”
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Trading Arms For Drug-Free Fields?
In a remote northern corner of Myanmar near the China border, a new world order is emerging. There, Kachin rebels have battled the Burmese government for three decades.
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Toeing The Line
Put away your mules. This season’s hot look for women is motorcycle boots. The macho “harness” boots are showing up everywhere, from the streets of Greenwich Village to the runways of Chanel, Basic black is always good–with denim or chiffon. But try red patent if you want to look more like Bridget Fonda than Peter (“Easy Rider”) Fonda.
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Statuary Libel?
If they make a movie about Columbia University professor James Beck, they should call it “Midnight Expression.” Beck now sits in an Italian court as it considers whether the noted art historian must be jailed on charges of “aggravated slander.” The verbiage in question: Beck’s assertion that Gianni Caponi’s restoration of a sculpture in the cathedral of Lucca looked as if it had been treated with acid, “cleaned with Spic and Span, and polished with Johnson’s Wax.” Suffice it to say this prosecution would be laughed out of American courts.
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Let’s Do Lunch
Was the Madrid summit the last time George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev will meet one-on-one as international equals? Leaving their joint press conference, Bush told Gorbachev, “You’re a master.” But the remark was just a courtesy, administration sources say.
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A Pipe Dream
Did Alaska Gov. Walter Hickel violate the state’s ethics law by promoting the sale of arctic natural gas during a trip to Japan and South Korea last month?
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Mario On Their Minds
Which Democratic presidential candidate does the White House fear most? NEWSWEEK has learned that the majority of George Bush’s top campaign strategists, including Fred Malek and Robert Teeter, think New York Gov.
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