Word: champlain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Waldeck win over listeners because they are entertainers first and crusaders second. Dressed in T shirts and sneakers, they mix humor with their anger, and fun with their activism. In one number, Waldeck strolls around the stage under an umbrella. The lyric: "I walk the shores of Lake Champlain/ in the placid acid rain." In another tune, Waldeck dreams of being reincarnated as a "big, wrecking ball" so he can "crack down on condos." But fast-food executives would not find the show especially funny. "Lay down your Whopper and your fries," one song goes. "Save a rain forest, baby...
Good evening, agony fans. Time for another thrilling episode with Barry Champlain (Eric Bogosian). For two hours a night, this talk-show host spits out opinions, croons insults, talks people off the suicide ledge of despondency, seduces and then abandons his listeners. Got a personal problem? Barry will mock it. Afraid of blacks, Jews, gays? Barry will make sure you're more afraid of him. Or maybe you just love him. Don't try: "Nothing more boring than people who love you." And when Barry is bored, he cuts off your lifeline -- hangs up on you. Remember, folks: "Sticks...
Last week the ATF redeployed 33 agents to work with D.C., Maryland and Virginia narcotics squads and U.S. Park Police officers in a regional antidrug task force. Late Thursday night, Thomas Moyer, a plainclothes sergeant with the Park Police, was cruising down Washington's Champlain Street. He pointed out two Jamaican men in hooded sweatshirts, standing guard outside a decrepit apartment building. "They're protecting everything that's going on inside," says Moyer. "You see the same thing every day. A car pulls up and two guys get out. One's got a pound of cocaine in a plastic...
Best ECAC Town: Vermont. Burlington is a yuppie's delight. The streets are clean. The cars are clean. The people look clean. Rumor has it that Mr. Clean lives in a cottage off Lake Champlain...
Moore attempts to warm this chilly view with a sense of tragedy. His Father Laforgue is a composite of the passionate and courageous priests who followed Samuel de Champlain and the early fur trappers into the region. Laforgue's assignment is to relieve a remote mission at Ihonatiria on the shores of Lake Huron. He and a young French assistant named Daniel must travel by canoe in the company of an Algonquin band that is the birchbark equivalent of a motorcycle gang...