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Whether Disney spent $12 million mounting Beauty, as its moguls claim, or a more beastly $20 million, as some theater insiders assert, it has bet big on its belief in a vast untapped stage audience yearning for family entertainment -- even in the honky-tonk heart of Manhattan, even at a $65 top-ticket price, even at a 10:30 p.m. curtain-call time, when much of the target audience should be in bed. So far, business has been good. The day after Beauty opened, it set an all-time Broadway record for a single day's ticket sales...
...sole reason for her success. When his drug addiction leads him to acts of violence, Tina is cowed in fear because she subconsciously worries how she will cope with her career without Ike's guidance. The simultaneous growth in both her personal and professional self-confidence enables her to assert her independence...
...went on to assert that "under the council's standards, a proper referendum petition should not be packed," a word to which he imputes vaguely sinister undertones, but one which I must confess I still do not understand. Once again, the "council's standards" are a week-old creation of Carey W. Gabay, in response to the petition...
McConnell and Laycock assert that Lemon's "primary-effect" criterion (the one used to outlaw the Kiryas Joel school) is too fuzzy and has been misused to deny religious Americans rights that are automatically granted to others. The Supreme Court has already overruled lower courts that used the primary- effect criterion to outlaw voluntary religious clubs in public schools, rental of public schools to churches on the same basis as other community groups, and help for blind and deaf students attending religious schools...
...given right to light up. This doesn't even include the many more tolerant non-smokers who will die later because of Cachan's and his fellow smokers' allegedly innocent puffs. Faced with a decidedly unabstract society that suffers because of his actions, I trust that Cachan will not assert that I must be forced to inhale his smoke. I hope he will recognize that his right to spew his smoke, just as his right to extend his fist, must end at the tip of my nose...