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...work program that he claims has found jobs for 30% of the recipients. Critics have called that number incomplete and misleading. But Engler's boast of having saved $100 million on welfare reform became his national calling card. As the state's economy improved further, he declared, "The rust belt is history." In a breathtaking political resurrection, he was re-elected in 1994 with 61% of the vote, having turned Michigan from the mightiest bastion of the industrial welfare state into the very model of the Republican future...
...turns charms, mesmerizes and shocks the viewer. His performance includes the now-famous monologue to the camera ("Are you talkin' to me?"), said to have been improvised. A young Jodie Foster contributes a jarring, Academy Award-winning performance as a young prostitute: one moment she is undoing a belt buckle in businesslike manner, at another she is giggly and talkative while eating a piece of bread slathered in sweetness. Harvey Keitel is the epitome of the slimy pimp--he claimed to have rehearsed with actual specimens. His wimpish bravado and bared arms give him the appearance of an evil...
...repairs. Workers have begun reinforcing the girders, beams, columns and trusses at the site of the opening and closing ceremonies. The stadium's designers and an outside consultant began reviewing construction of the $230 million arena after a light tower collapsed last March, killing a worker. "It's a belt and suspenders thing," says engineer Antranij Ouzoonian, explaining the work on the stadium. "If you have a belt, you're O.K.; if you add suspenders, you're better...
...Dole does not win the Republican nomination, he will die a horrible political death. We will see him vainly thrashing around in his last strongholds--the Bible Belt and the isolated pockets of the country where fundamentalism and fanaticism still rear their low brow heads. At campaign rallies, prayer breakfasts and fund raising dinners, he will constantly draw attention to his gnarled fist, until even his most ardent supporters desert him, disgusted by his shameless antics...
...popular culture and run rampant through it. Anyone who has listened to the lyrics of such groups as Nine Inch Nails or Smashing Pumpkins has undoubtedly felt the incoherent and inexplicable anger conveyed by the music. (Not surprisingly, Seven director David Fincher has many music videos under his belt. The movie's opening music is, in fact, a Nine Inch Nails tune.) And it's impossible to watch television without seeing talk shows and real-crime dramas which amplify and extort human misery for ratings...