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What becalms a legend most? Familiarity and longevity are the twin chief curses of American celebrity. Hustling Pepsi on TV -- in the foxy company of a trio of backup singers hovering over the keyboard, dispensing flash-point smiles -- may do wonders for the soda, but it does tend to sell soul a bit short. It's tough to be a genius and a pitchman at the same time, especially when the TV spots contain more concentrated energy than your last half-dozen albums...
...FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY IS FORBIDden at Cirque du Soleil, the master of ceremonies announces at the outset of its all new show Saltimbanco, "because of the extreme danger it represents to the people of our world." Our world? To anyone unfamiliar with the previous spectacles of this Montreal-based big top -- Le Cirque Reinvente and Nouvelle Experience -- the emcee's remark will seem twee and pretentious. But he's not kidding. Their world is beautiful, seductive, utterly otherly...
...aiming to ensure that all women, rich and poor, have the same reproductive options, and for getting serious about global overpopulation. Opponents, who will fight the proposals in Congress, accused Clinton of forcing many taxpayers to help pay for what they believe is murder. Both measures could become flash points in a dispute that is sparking increasing violence. Just three weeks after a doctor who performed abortions was gunned down in Florida, an abortion clinic in Montana was set ablaze...
...WANDA HOLLOWAY, THE TEXas housewife accused of trying to hire a hit man to murder the mother of her daughter's cheerleading rival, Holly Hunter is like a clenched tornado. She talks so fast the words barely make it out of her mouth; expressions flash on and off her face in milliseconds. Plotting the crime with her former brother-in-law (who turned her in to the police before it could be carried out), she keeps bursting into giggling shrieks, a schoolgirl titillated by the brazenness of her own amorality. A control freak to the end, she demands instructions from...
...computers are protected against theft with a series of locks and clamps. Whoever set up the security system, in a brilliant flash of ignorance, clamped the power cord to the monitor...