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...ROSE OF GUNS N' ROSES -- HAMMER & HIS ENTOURAGE -- LOLLAPALOOZA '92 WITH RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS -- ICE CUBE -- THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN -- PEARL JAM & MORE Touring shows are booming again, as superstars hit the road with performances in which the sounds are enhanced -- and sometimes swamped -- by high-tech, multimillion-dollar special effects and gimmicks, from floating autos to body piercing...
Like high-tech, multimillion-dollar special effects. The Irish band U2, which used to pride itself on its spartan, no-glitz performance style, has invested $2.5 million in an extravaganza it calls the Zoo TV Outside Broadcast, to be unveiled when the group begins a 15-city U.S. swing that will run from Aug. 11 into November. Dates are still being added, but the tour will also hit Toronto and Montreal. The show employs nine screens, with the two largest measuring 20 ft. by 30 ft., three dozen 27-in. television monitors and a satellite dish. During the concert...
...Tocqueville 150 years ago, the this-is-a-new-land-and-we-can-do-anyth ing ethos that once defined the national character. Ross Perot in three short months has out of nothing created something far larger than a multibillion- dollar company, or perhaps something even larger than the multimillion- dollar campaign he will fund. Win or lose, his populist crusade and the challenge he is mounting to the establishment parties may well help break the deadlock of American democracy...
MANUEL ANTONIO NORIEGA'S CONviction came at an exceedingly high price. Washington's eagerness to put Noriega behind bars occasioned the controversial 1989 invasion of Panama that took the lives of 23 American soldiers and at least 500 local citizens. The seven-month, multimillion-dollar trial featured testimony from some 20 dope dealers, pilots and money launderers, much of it in exchange for reduced sentences, cash settlements and other favors. And although President Bush hailed last week's verdict as "a major victory against the drug lords," Noriega's conviction is likely to have little lasting effect on the overall...
...embodiment of the ancient Greek maxim of the fox and the hedgehog. Clinton, the fox, knows many things well: his policy positions on a wide range of issues are thoughtful and often innovative. But Brown, like the hedgehog, knows just one important thing: the current system of multimillion-dollar political fund raising is inherently corrupting to democracy. Brown -- who, even his fondest admirers admit, is a political changeling constantly taking on new personas -- has finally embraced a cause that returns him to his political roots as a post-Watergate clean-government crusader in California...