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...acts. As the featured artists parade the genius of their bodies in stunts of strength and grace, Cirque's menagerie (Edvard Munch's silent screamer, Clive Barker's Pinhead and dozens of other glamorous mutants) capers around them like bit players in an amiable madman's reverie. Ballerina-contortionists flex gaily; Pierrots bodysurf across the stage on skateboards; the man with the newspaper floats in midair. Dragone exhausts the laws of geometry, while the performers bend the laws of physics...
Whether the latest round of confrontation is really over depends on the whims of Iraq's unfathomable ruler. "If he continues to flex his muscles," says Pollard, "we have to deploy our forces to keep the peace and protect U.S. interests." But with most American officials increasingly confident that the U.S. has squelched Iraq's military adventuring for the moment, the next real concern is how much political and diplomatic damage has been done...
...people, it kills "children." The problem with pollution is that it poisons "playgrounds." The reason to fight crime is so that "children's lives are not shattered by violence." Look at President Clinton's initiatives: literacy for all eight-year-olds, extra money for child care, adoption tax credits, flex time and family leave. Every voter was a child once, but it's possible that voters without children might have felt a bit lonely at the family table in Chicago...
...Moore, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jack Nicholson and Sharon Stone stay on a small island that is just within sight of an oil-tank farm and is located near a busy shipping channel and a sewage-treatment plant? Perhaps it's to bask on a beach of imported white Bahamian sand, flex pecs in the 22,000-sq.-ft. spa, volley at any of the 18 tennis courts or choose from more than 11 brands of bottled water at the local market...
Then they waited. Not much happened for the first three months, as the animals dragged their back legs. Then one day, a few of them started to flex their hind muscles. Awkwardly at first, and then with growing strength, they began to crawl around. A year later, they could support their weight and move their rear legs, although they were still not walking normally...