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ALLEN SIGHS RESIGNEDLY when she is asked the Powell question. Yes, she will be protesting. "I'll definitely be wearing an armband and a sticker on my mortarboard," she says, adding "I think the balloon is a stupid idea. It's going to look like a party, not a protest...
...Fogg drops his straight-laced lifestyle and starts to dance the hot Spanish number performed in the third scene, throwing all propriety, consistency, and logic to the wind. A balloon holding Gitano comes crashing with great bravado like a deus ex machina through the roof of the stage, and, with a load of Irish children, a Chinese dragon, and a cheerleader, the grand finale is performed as a bewildering spectacle of confusion. Like a ride through "It's a Small World," Eighty Days is choppy but full of energy, disappointing on the order of the musical but impressive...
...Commencement, [we want] everyone to carry one balloon in for every gay and lesbian soldier kicked out of the military during Colin Powell's term. There will be about 7,000 balloons given out to graduates," said Brad B. Sears, a member of the gay, lesbian and bisexual group at Harvard Law School...
...another appeal to sacrifice. Less than 48 hours after hitting up Americans for $246 billion in new taxes over four years, Clinton was already discussing the idea of a national sales tax as if it were a not too distant possibility. "I did not mean to float a trial balloon," Clinton said Friday, as the issue threatened to engulf his campaign to push his first round of tax proposals. Meanwhile in Washington, Clinton's Budget Director, Leon Panetta, brought up the likelihood of new taxes on guns, alcohol and tobacco. "It's a bit too early to say," Panetta said...
There are some great parodies of Bronte, Moliere and Shakespeare. But there are a few too many truly bad puns, along the order of "Virginity is like a balloon at the carnival...it pops at the first prick..." And there are far too many attacks by wolves and goblins...