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Gore said all communities should pursue their plans, even if they don't receive federal funding. The vice president compared the situation facing these communities to the story of Dumbo and his magic feather...

Author: By Sandhya R. Rao, | Title: Gore Advocates Empowerment | 12/7/1993 | See Source »

...Arrick to make Honey and Nick so ludicrously two-dimensional, for it undermines the true cruelty of George and Martha's manipulations if we feel Honey and Nick aren't worthy of anything better. Susan Santoian dresses Martha as too conspicuous a floozy; all that's missing is a feather...

Author: By Vineeta Vijayaraghavan, | Title: Before War of the Roses | 11/18/1993 | See Source »

Enter the domestic-science experts, a group of ladies who, if ever there is a feminist hell, will be tortured eternally with feather dusters. These were women who made careers out of telling other women that they couldn't have careers because housework was a big enough job in itself. And they were right, since their standard for a well-kept home was one that revealed no evidence of human occupation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Housework Is Obsolescent | 10/25/1993 | See Source »

...mephistophelean Rene Bazinet stands at the center of the spectacle. This wiry, pale emcee appears as five different characters throughout the evening, including a demonic schoolboy and a hunchbacked grim reaper and a mischievous harlequin. In a particularly bawdy acrobatic scene involving a gigantic feather bed and a swing set, he appears in striped tights, a harness top and a winged hat that makes him look more like an underworld gogo dancer than a traditional ringmaster. A master of vocal effects, Bazinet plays an imaginary game of catch with the spectators and effortlessly incorporates an audience member into a hilarious...

Author: By David S. Kurnick, | Title: Cirque du Soleil Offers A Vision of a Better Bigtop | 9/30/1993 | See Source »

...gave Power time to gradually reveal herself to those who had come to love Alice Metzinger. On Sept. 12, Alice Metzinger held a going-away party, where she announced that she was headed for prison. Her friends showered her with gifts of good-luck charms, a stone and a feather, and a map of the night sky, which Robin Llewellyn, a co-worker at the coffee shop, says was given to her so that "she can experience the outside without being outside." Power's husband told TIME, "When she would be asked about her past, she would just not talk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Return of the Fugitive | 9/27/1993 | See Source »

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