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Appetite: While Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf may...

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Appetite: While Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf may have engorged himself on Iraq’s Republican Guards, what does his wife worry about? “I wonder if he eats right,” Brenda Schwarzkopf says. “I watch the television and wonder if he’s sleeping and eating OK.” Mrs. Schwarzkopf says that in addition to getting news from her husband’s regular phone calls, “I watch a lot of TV--a lot of it.”

Barely: Five “emperors” had no clothes in Annapolis, Md., recently. A painting of the world leaders shown nude was pulled from a local college faculty exhibit after complaints. Artist Josef Schuetzenhoefer said he was disappointed, but took “Capitalism Is Dead” from the show anyway. It depicted former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, Polish President Lech Walesa, Polish Cardinal Jozef Glemp, German Chancellor Helmut Kohl and the late millionaire publisher Malcolm Forbes standing on a cart with missing wheels.

Oh Dear: Canada late last week gave Bambi no refuge. Officials said escaped Milwaukee killer Lawrencia (Bambi) Bembenek was a public danger and barred her from staying in the country. Bembenek, a former Playboy model, won the support of many Milwaukee residents after her 1981 conviction on murder charges in the death of the ex-wife of Bembenek’s husband at the time, a police detective. She said she was set up to take the rap for another person’s crime, and after her escape supporters distributed T-shirts reading: “Run Bambi Run.”

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Cleared for Takeoff: During the Persian Gulf War, those other runways--the ones used by Paris ready-to-wear designers--will carry on as usual, the French Fashion Federation said in Paris. “We formally and officially deny all rumors which may have circulated about a possible cancellation of our shows,” read a federation statement. Fear of attacks on civilians and the dollar’s decline kept many American clients away from January’s haute couture shows, and some designers canceled February menswear showings.

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