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After the comedy bust in the late '80s, only an elite of televised comedians survived. Poundstone is among that elite and endures the downside--five-minute spots on Letterman and failed sitcom pilots...
Recently, ELIZABETH TAYLOR's life has been a bit of a bust for sensation junkies. Per fume launches and charity work are fine, but they don't evoke the Liz who made headlines just by quarreling with Richard Burton. So when "ol' violet eyes" announced that she and seventh husband LARRY FORTENSKY were undertaking a trial separation, people seemed less shocked than mildly nostalgic. "Let the tabloid games begin," Taylor said. But the tabs were already busy with fresh quarry--the rumor that J.F.K. Jr. had proposed to his girlfriend Carolyn Bessette...
While boom-and-bust hurricane cycles lasting decades have been well documented, the reasons for them remain obscure. That's not the case for individual storms, though. Atlantic hurricanes inevitably get their start in Africa, where hot, dry air overlying the Sahara desert collides with cooler, moister air over the sub-Saharan region known as the Sahel. Under normal conditions, the collision produces eddies of low-pressure air that drift out over the ocean, where storm clouds begin to form. Most of the time, the clouds simply dump their load of rain and dissipate...
...seven years from now. This reaction was odd. The trustees issue a report every year, and never before has any leading politician, Republican or Democrat, expressed so much panic. This year's report actually showed an improvement over last year's, which projected that the trust fund would go bust in 2001. Yet House Speaker Newt Gingrich and other Republicans suddenly declared with one voice that immediate steps were necessary to "save Medicare...
...might add that poetry without economics--without some sense of the ebb and flow of the megamercantile society surrounding the poet--is bunk too. Behind Moyers' many questions lurks one that goes unasked: Are we "celebrating" so hard because otherwise someone might point out that the party's a bust...