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...youth leaders will be asked to commit at least 10 hours a week to the program. For their work they will be paid an hourly stipend and awarded a $2363 scholarship when their terms are up. But students will receive more than mere monetary gains for their work, Golden said...
...might have watched on the Ed Sullivan Show. Here was the excitement of the President of the last superpower attempting a well- nigh unconstitutional if admirably motivated exercise (admirably motivated if one discounted the approaching midterm elections and the poll bounce to be coaxed from a triumphal little war: mere cynicism, of course...
...sleaziest way to get a laugh and feel superior. Even cut-rate exploitation movies can possess a delirious visionary gran-deur that makes any sarcasm directed their way seem small-minded. But the MST3K gang have gone far beyond Golden Turkey Awards. For this clever crowd, inept movies are mere cues to asides on politics and society, which they attack with scimitar wit. The show can even be seen as a branch of semiological (and semi-illogical) studies. "I've always been interested in the close reading of any text," . Murphy says. "We just get a lot closer -- inside...
...week's primary results were not happy ones for Democrats. In Oklahoma, voters ousted veteran Representative Mike Synar, a liberal Clinton ally and an anti-tobacco, antigun war-horse. Nominated in his place was Virgil Cooper, a retired school principal. In Washington State, House Speaker Thomas Foley won a mere 35% of the vote in his state's open primary; four Republican candidates received the balance of the vote. "We are in a period of hesitation and uncertainty," President Clinton told Democrats at a post-primary pep talk. His prescription: "What we have to do is make this election...
...Croix doesn't want audiences to be so awed by the Cirque experience that it becomes mere spectacle. "We always keep contact with the public," he says. "This is our source. We want the public to cross through the wall and be an actor in the event. It makes us feel as if we are not God; we're human, we are Saltimbanco -- a street player, here tonight to share this big joke, our show...