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...time is ripe to dump on Cirque du Soleil. This Montreal-based troupe has been an item of import chic since 1987, when it began touring the U.S. with a show called Le Cirque Reinvente. The Cirque style--circus acts (no animals, just humans) with the gloss of stage magic and a mysterioso musical score--is no longer an automatic astonishment; form has congealed into formula. Putting one of its extravaganzas, Mystere, in a Las Vegas casino and planning new shows in Vegas and Walt Disney World are moves that rob Cirque of its old street-theater purity. Then there...
...hookahs" and portable air compressors, Philippine divers are hunting down big reef fish, stunning them with cyanide and hauling them to the surface alive. The practice allows traders to supply Chinese restaurants with the live fish their affluent customers covet. Meanwhile, the 330,000 lbs. of cyanide the divers dump onto living corals each year is poisoning the reefs...
Clinton has lately talked of enacting some kind of stopgap legislation to keep Medicare solvent beyond 2001, which now looms as the year of bankruptcy, and then appointing a bipartisan commission to suggest long-term solutions. That sounds distressingly like a cop-out, a way to dump the problem into the lap of Clinton's successor...
...third and final of his policy proposals as his train neared Chicago: a $1.9 billion environmental package that includes $1.3 billion for cleaning two-thirds of all Superfund sites by 2000. "I want an America in the 21st Century where no child has to live near a toxic waste dump," Clinton said to crowds gathered near the Kalamazoo river as he continued to press his theme that while Bob Dole represents a bridge to the past, a second Clinton administration would provide a bridge to the future. Like other proposals the president has offered in recent days, the environmental program...
...stripper named Erin Grant, in a nasty fight to regain custody of her daughter from a creepy former spouse, which in turn involves her in the murderous machinations of corrupt rich people. But it forgets to explain persuasively what a nice girl like Erin is doing in a dump called the Eager Beaver, taking off her clothes for a living. Worse, according to Schickel, he misses novelist Carl Hiaasen's strength: setting mean-funny characters spinning through lowlife milieus. Yes, Burt Reynolds has some dirty, lively moments as a crooked, sex-starved Congressman. But the crazy, nothing-to-lose anarchy...