Word: houston
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...long defended: the 1993 budget deal he sold as a valiant attempt to cut the deficit, lower interest rates and make the tax system more progressive. What looked courageous two years ago was looking costly last week when Clinton stood before a well-heeled crowd of donors in Houston. And so he abandoned text and principle and ad-libbed a confession. "Probably there are people in this room still mad at me at that budget because you think I raised your taxes too much," he said. "It might surprise you to know I think I raised them too much...
...York City, Chicago and Los Angeles, men explaining to TIME why they would participate all chose the same metaphor: when your building is burning, they said, you don't worry about the pedigree of the fire fighters. In Washington last weekend, Donnie Scantlebury, 19, a college student from Houston, talked about "friends who died from suicides, fights, drugs. In any black neighborhood, everyone has seen friends killed or taken off to jail. I want people to see we can get together without fighting." In Brooklyn salesman Kirk McNeil, 29, was more matter-of-fact. "I expect the march to change...
...past 20 years regionals have tried doing it themselves. Goodspeed's launching of Shenandoah and Annie encouraged California's La Jolla Playhouse (Big River, The Who's Tommy, Randy Newman's Faust) and Houston's Theatre Under the Stars (co-producer of Jekyll & Hyde, now on a pre-Broadway tour...
...without the glare of courtroom television coverage. In Los Angeles prosecutors began their retrial of Lyle and Erik Menendez on charges of having murdered their parents; the prior prosecution of the brothers, who claim they were driven to kill by years of sexual abuse, ended in hung juries. In Houston, Yolanda Saldivar went on trial for the murder of Tejano singing star Selena. The former president of Selena's fan club, Saldivar claims the shooting was an accident...
Washington's varied roles will keep coming: soon he will co-star with Whitney Houston in a remake of the 1947 Cary Grant comedy The Bishop's Wife. "I bring myself to any part," he says. "And I'll bring my experiences and voice my opinions." Those opinions are often present beneath the surface; in his performances, there is a smoldering Afrocentricity that gives his work depth, connecting it to a cultural reality larger than the movies in which he appears. In one scene in The Pelican Brief, he kicks at a cab that has passed him by. In Devil...