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...pictures bat each other silly. So welcome to SLACKER, a parade of all-American weirdos. Writer- director Richard Linklater has borrowed the format of La Ronde -- one character talking to a second, the second to a third and so on -- and populated it with dozens of layabouts (slackers) in Austin. These motor-mouth dropouts have decided on a life of independent study: of the Kennedy assassination, or the space program (we've been on Mars since 1962, colonizing the galaxy with financing from the Medellin cartel), or Elvis (he's living in Las Vegas, working as -- what else? -- an Elvis...
...quietly embraced Fishkin's idea and plans to televise six to eight hours of excerpts of the exercise during the weekend of Jan. 17-19, a month before the 1992 campaign formally begins with the Iowa caucuses. Named the National Issues Convention, the three-day, $3.5 million conclave in Austin holds the potential to shape the late-starting, who's-running-anyway Democratic race and provide a forum for the Bush Administration to field-test its campaign themes. As Edward Fouhy, executive producer of the PBS broadcast, puts it, "This is the only thing that holds the hope of breaking...
...pivotal moment will come in December, when about 600 randomly selected adult Americans will be told they have won the political lottery and are delegates to the National Issues Convention. Will they agree to put aside their normal lives for a weekend and fly all-expenses-paid to Austin? Fishkin is optimistic. "What you're offering these people is three days on national TV, a chance to meet the candidates, a chance to make history, a sunny climate and a reasonable per diem allowance," he says. "For a lot of these people, this will be the most important thing that...
What is so beguiling about the National Issues Convention is that no one -- absolutely no one -- has any idea how it will play out. But whatever happens in Austin, the novel event itself will be an affirmation that grass- roots democracy can still flourish in a television...
...faster than a speeding bullet, but for Lone Star staters in a hurry the so-called bullet train authorized last week by the Texas high-speed rail authority may be the next best thing: a 200-m.p.h. high-tech wonder that . should eventually link Dallas, Houston, San Antonio and Austin in a 620-mile commuter triangle -- America's first ultrafast rail line...