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BRAVING A SWELTERING SPRING SUN, 2,000 ROSS Perot zealots lugged 90 cardboard boxes stuffed with signed petitions up the lawn to the Texas Capitol last week in an effort to put the billionaire on the state's presidential ballot. This well-scripted media spectacle, festooned with flapping flags, balloons and bunting, marked the unofficial unannouncement of the uncandidate. In only nine weeks, Perot, who has qualified for four other state ballots, collected more than 200,000 signatures in Texas -- four times what he needed -- and that's a chilling omen for Bush and Democratic challenger Bill Clinton...
...Brown sits alone in the headquarters of the Voter Education Project, surrounded by history. The run-down house near the mostly black Atlanta University Complex is littered with cardboard cartons stuffed with records that date back to 1962, when America's homegrown version of apartheid reigned throughout the South and all but a handful of blacks were denied the right to vote. Today, thanks largely to VEP'S unheralded support of grass-roots voter- registration and education drives, 5.5 million Southern blacks have registered and the number of black elected officials in the region has exploded from less than...
Other techniques include placing a new picture and creating a giant cardboard replica of a Massachusetts driver's license, taking photographs of students standing where the face should...
...reached into my pocket and pulled out two quarters. Two bicentennial quarters with the proud-looking drummer on the back. This was a truly charmed day. I pulled the plastic open with a quick, sharp snap. I then slowly separated the sticky Zoink! from the white cardboard square, leaving most of the bottom of the cake sticking on the cardboard--to be licked off later. So far, they were just like real Twinkies...
Whew. No wonder the guy has trouble getting off the ground. He's carrying too much baggage. And so is Steven Spielberg's movie, which starts out deceptively, that is, wonderfully, with a school production of the original Peter Pan -- cardboard scenery and sweetly earnest little players, faces scrunched by the effort of remembering their lines. This is the director at his formidable best, tenderly evoking the spirit of childhood...