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...House ethics committee to look into the relationship between the chairman and his former aide, who continues to serve as his top political adviser. What got people talking was a story that appeared earlier this month in the twice-a-week Capitol Hill newspaper Roll Call. Just after dawn on Jan. 25, the paper's reporter spotted the 9th district Congressman and Eppard pulling out of her recently purchased $823,000 town house. She was driving her 1994 Dodge sedan, which bears the official-looking license plate "US House PA 9." Shuster, it turns out, has rented out his only...
...state of perpetual upheaval. That is why E.J. Dionne, Washington Post columnist and pundit, has the audacity to predict a Progressive revival in his new book, They Only Look Dead. "They" are progressives, liberals and Democrats, whose defeat in 1994 Dionne sees as the darkest hour before the dawn...
...solitary figure silhouetted against a reddish-orange dawn marks the beginning of Tug Yourgrau's musical, "The Song of Jacob Zulu." The play, which opened on Broadway in 1993, is an honest attempt to recount the tragedies of a South Africa under the baleful spell of apartheid. Inspired by the murder trial of Jacob Zulu in 1985, the play recounts the violence and pressures of a society fractured by racism...
...difficult to produce. What does it mean to produce alternative comedy when mainstream pop culture has become so self-mocking? When Miller Lite commercials do smart send-ups of kung fu movies, when sitcoms like Ned and Stacey make jokes about sitcoms like Mr. Belvedere, when From Dusk Till Dawn wears its crumminess as a badge of honor? Moreover, there is the difficulty of producing intelligent satire in a world in which reality at times resembles a series of lame celebrity-sketch conceits--Sonny Bono in Congress, O.J. Simpson peddling testimony on video that he never gave in court. Lorne...
...worth of tickets will pay $2,600 to stay six nights in a motel about 100 miles from town. (Some travel agencies require a minimum booking of six days even if tourists don't have tickets for all those days.) The visitors will then have to get up before dawn to be loaded on a bus for the two-hour trip to the city, where they'll pay about $150 a day for food. That makes a grand total of almost $5,000, excluding souvenirs...