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Huffington owes much of her newfound status to Gingrich, who first noticed her on C-SPAN giving a speech at a conservative conference in 1993. (She spoke on the question "Can Conservatives Have a Social Conscience?") It was ideological combustion at first sight, or something like that. Gingrich immediately invited her to speak at a Republican conference a month later. A Republican aide there recalls Gingrich's reaction to the statuesque Greek immigrant: "My clearest recollections were with the rapture in which he held her. He was like a puppy dog." She quickly became a member of Gingrich's group...
Washington is more candid on other topics. He ridicules Senator Bob Dole's suggestion that there's too much sex and violence in movies: "I've looked at C-SPAN and said the same thing." Although he loved the movies Menace II Society and Boyz N the Hood, he feels the gangsta film genre may be exhausted: "I don't pay to see 'life in the hood' movies anymore. That story's been told. If someone has something to spill from their heart, God bless 'em, they should...but if someone's just saying, 'Oh I'm gonna keep doing...
...entire summer I endured seeing newspaper reviews of Web sites, the letters "http" plastered all over magazines, and daytime talk shows flaunting their e-mail addresses. "The Net" opened in theaters around the country, C-SPAN hosted World Wide Web seminars, MTV televised a Michael Jackson chat session and The New York Times monitored news group activity following Jerry Garcia's death. And there I was, with my ethernet card still packed from school, feeling more than slightly impotent...
...Corporation for Public Broadcasting (PBS), too, has several options at its disposal, including licensing the revenue generated by many of its popular programs. After all, the Discovery Channel, Mind Extension University, the Learning Channel and the Arts & Entertainment Network, as well as C-SPAN, all survive and compete with PBS without tax subsidy. Alice Marquis reminds us that in 1973 the NEA issued a $5,000 grant to author Erica Jong to help her finish writing the novel Fear of Flying. How much could the endowment have received if it had requested a percentage of the royalties for putting...
...made Playboy and Hustler look like Sunday-school stuff." He had the images printed out, stuffed them in a blue folder and invited his colleagues to stop by his desk on the Senate floor to view them. At the end of the debate--which was carried live on C-SPAN--few Senators wanted to cast a nationally televised vote that might later be characterized as pro-pornography. The bill passed...