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...According to organizers and police alike, this year's counter-inaugural protests will be the largest since Richard Nixon took the oath of office in 1973, during the heyday of anti-Vietman war outrage. And protesters aren't limiting their activities to Saturday: Several groups, including the George Washington University Action Coalition, are sponsoring teach-ins and planning workshops - during which they hope to spark ongoing political interest among protesters...
...PERFECTED HOME PICTUREPHONE: Any day now, engineers are going to figure out how to make videophones cheap enough for someone besides the chairman of Goldman Sachs to use at home. But "now" is the postderegulation telephonic age and the heyday of high-powered telemarketing. Do you have any idea what this means once the Picturephone becomes a common household appliance? It means: "Hi, I'm Kathie Lee Gifford singing the Trans-Vox Long Distance Weekend Offer Song!" "It's me, John Madden, inviting you to sign up now for a low-interest KashKard!" "Got a minute? I'd like...
...Throughout these years, besides writing music that he describes as a "beautiful amalgam of Stravinsky and Schoenberg," Schuller followed closely the fascinating developments in jazz. "In those days, you could hear a tremendous amount of jazz on the radio. This was the heyday of the swing era; jazz was the total popular music of the United States...When I first heard [Duke Ellington], I knew right away, and declared that he was just as great as Beethoven. I still stand by that. If you analyze that music, in terms of the quality and the inspiration of the music, you come...
Everyone, I'm sure, has their favorite Baldwin brother. Some people prefer Stephen, won over by his goofy smile and his scintillating performance alongside Pauly Shore in 1996's Bio-Dome. Others pick Billy, the soulful middle child, whose star wattage has dimmed somewhat since his heyday in films like Sliver and Backdraft. And some, I imagine, plump for Adam, the oft-forgotten Baldwin boy whose work, for some reason, tends to scurry straight to video...
...films, such as Wag the Dog, Bulworth and Primary Colors, have tried to take swings at contemporary politics before and have each failed miserably. Their satirical messages felt tired and exhausted before they had even hit the theatres. In truth, however, those three 1998 movies were released during the heyday of the Lewinsky scandal and no matter how many famous faces or piquant plots producers stuffed into the films, nothing was as entertaining as the Bill, Linda and Monica triangle...