Word: followers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...film fails to match the quality of its star. Russell's supporting cast--from Map To The Stars Eddie to the sexually confused Hershe (Pam Grier)--are lame at best and annoying at worst. And the plot has so many strange and random twists that it becomes difficult to follow at times...
...shortly after he announced that security there should be reduced...), there's something slightly unsettling about the shift that commentary represents in the balance of power between fluff media and serious public discourse. It's disturbing to have reached a point where officials feel that they have to play follow-the-leader with Hollywood (not renowned as a think tank for sound public policy). Leaders should be spending more time trying to set an agenda of national concerns and less trying to co-opt the currents of a cultural mainstream that is swinging away from them. The fact that media...
...permit lower- and middle-income parents of about 4 million school-age children a wider variety of schools to choose from. Clinton needn't worry, Dole noted last week; Chelsea Clinton attends a private school. The problem, Dole said, is that those without "money, power or office" can't follow the President's example. "Here's an issue where we Republicans are with the average guy and the Democrats are with the bosses," says former Education Secretary Bill Bennett. "Choice can drive a wedge in our favor against Clinton...
...down in the sea. In a second or two, a typically dank Long Island South Shore night goes from languor to amazement to horror. Private vessels are first to rush toward the site through the Moriches Inlet, which opens to the ocean. Zodiacs from the Coast Guard station follow. Cutters come soon after. Emergency vehicles make a long, undulating necklace of light on the roads leading to town. The air is thick with police sirens and slow, mournful fire alarms. Everyone turns on the news...
...banks and trudging door to door for the local Service Employees International Union, which is trying to unionize 73,000 minimum-wage workers who care for the elderly and disabled in their homes. "We have this down to a science," claims S.E.I.U. official Steve Wilensky, explaining that students would follow computerized lists of homeworkers laid out on block-by-block grids. But the database crashed, and lists turned out to be outdated, with students searching for buildings that had tumbled down during the 1994 earthquake...