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...next time (if there is a next time) you feel tempted to use your vacation money or weekly earnings to take your family to a baseball game and spend $5 for parking, $12 for a ticket and an average of $7 per person on overpriced hot dogs, sodas and peanuts, think twice about who will be reaping the profits...
...conference that kicked off in Washington today. Among the prominent Republicans scheduled to address the religious stalwarts: Texas Senator Phil Gramm, former Veep Dan Quayle, former Education Secretary Lamar Alexander and former Defense Secretary Dick Cheney -- all rumored aspirants for the top of the G.O.P. ticket...
...another thing, when you get a ticket, it will have what they call a "seat assignment." That is a figure of speech, unless a seat can be a slab of concrete...
...exceedingly tenuous plot spreads across the U.S. and into the '90s. Dunne invents a child star named Blue Tyler (born Melba Mae Toolate, or perhaps not, because her birth mother is supposed to have sold her as an infant to a Mrs. Toolate for the price of a bus ticket out of -- maybe -- Yuma, Arizona). Blue isn't cute like Shirley Temple (that "midget in drag," as one of Dunne's wise-guy industry types calls Blue's competition). Rather, she conveys adult sexuality to an unsettling degree, in part because a botched tonsillectomy (by the studio doctor who will...
...actually help support idealism. "((Woodstock)) is really corporate," admits bassist Mike Dirnt of the Berkeley punk band Green Day. "But that's one of the reasons we're playing. It's helping us make up a lot of the money we've lost touring, being out there keeping our ticket prices low." The best-paid acts received $250,000, and all will receive a share of ancillary royalties. Promoter Scher of Polygram Records says he turned down sponsorship offers from such companies as Marlboro, Coors, Budweiser and Seagram's. "This is 1994. This is not 1969. What everything costs...