That meant a lot of visits from vets, something Carol didn't appreciate Amanda, her primary care physician, had to call a half hour before coming, so I could lure Carol into the barn with oats.

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Amanda Horan Kennedy doesn't see it that way.

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Only the knock-down-drag-out fight that ends the second act fails to register, in part because Rob Howell's distractingly spectacular deco-modern set isn't cluttered enough to let Elyot and Amanda whip up a sufficiently chaotic mess.

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But I say to all of those who sit on the sidelines and who like to comment about the insubstantial matters, asylum, crime, health, that's what people talk about, they don't talk about silly nonsense such as Amanda Platell.

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Cyrus is getting older, but she's not in and out of court ( no offense, Lindsay), or getting into car wreck after car wreck ( no offense, Amanda), so isn't the "good girl gone bad" label pushing it?

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"There's still a huge untapped market out there--there's no reason to believe that there isn't enough share to go around, " says Amanda Tepper, who covers Aramark for J.

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While nothing as bad as that happens in "Private Lives, " in part because Mr. Gross really doesn't look his age, it's still a mistake to cast Amanda as a cougar on the loose.

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Which leads to the trickle-up theory: couture, being about lasting luxury instead of fashion fads, doesn't set trends but rather picks them up by osmosis, and last March the ready-to-wear shows were full to the brim with furs, from Ann Demeulemeester's cave-woman wraps to Amanda Wakeley's ermine jumper to Fendi's furs-that-didn't-look-like-furs (they looked like hobo patchwork coats, chunky grandma jumpers, and velvet skirts).

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