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After booming in the '90s, the number of ballot initiatives (measures proposed by citizens) and referendums (those put on the ballot by legislators) was down this year--202 measures in 40 states, the smallest figure since 1986. In Oregon, citizens even attempted to get an initiative on the ballot to "ban frivolous initiatives." It didn't make the cut--but a lot of others did, ranging from the essential to the eccentric. Here's a Notebook rundown. --By Heather Won Tesoriero...
Money will matter more than ever in 2004. The McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance Reform Act means that soft money is out and donors are limited to $25,000 gifts to the party, well below the typical $100,000 from high rollers in the '90s. Despite his implausible spinning following the election, McAuliffe looks destined to stay on as D.N.C. head because no one else in the party can approach his skill at opening up checkbooks. To raise $100 million in hard money, McAuliffe says he will borrow a Bush campaign tactic and ask fat cats to collect...
...Hong Kong movie love! Some day there ought to be a retrospective of the colony?s best romantic movies of the 80s and 90s: ?An Amorous Woman of Tang Dynasty,? ?Shanghai Blues,? ?Rouge,? ?Last Romance,? ?A Fishy Story,? ?The Bride With White Hair,? ?Red Rose White Rose,? ?Comrades: Almost a Love Story,? ?Fly Me to Polaris? and three or four moody-broodies from Kar-wai. But Hong Kong cinema didn?t earn its international cachet by dealing in delicate feelings and poignant renunciation. It got there with sex and violence, action and atrocity, deftly orchestrated mayhem - exactly the elements that...
...Years of Deliciously Evil Hong Kong Cinema.? The bestial festival, which runs through Thursday the 14th, assembles films famous (Samo Hung?s ?Close Encounters of the Spooky Kind,? Ricky Lau?s ?Mr. Vampire?), infamous (?The Untold Story,? ?Dr. Lamb?) and unfamous (?Devil Fetus,? ?Bio Zombie?) from the 80s and 90s...
...bondage pants worn with Hysteric Glamour shirts, vintage Clydes and Yohji Yamamoto stovepipes?was like a replicant, custom- made in Japan to thrive in this scene. His popularity spinning at London's now much-eulogized Return To The Source trance party propelled him to the top of the mid-'90s Eurotrance explosion, prompting tours of major rave festivals like the U.K.'s Big Love and Tribal Gathering and Germany's Love Parade. His arrival was confirmed in 1997, when leading designer Issey Miyake took him on as music director for his Paris and Tokyo shows, and again in 2000 when...