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Change is also the theme of the campaign led by Clouthier, 54. At P.A.N. rallies supporters chant "Si, se puede" (Yes, it is possible) as if it were a hymn; T shirts bear slogans like MY STRUGGLE IS FOR DEMOCRACY; and posters ; call for reforms that include, often on the same placard, the abolition of corruption, the national debt, inflation and pollution. At a recent rally in Mexico City, speakers emphasized that P.A.N.'s support crossed class lines. But there were few Indian faces among the thousands present, and gold crosses and religious medallions were worn conspicuously along with designer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mexico Almost a Horse Race | 7/4/1988 | See Source »

...sang James Brown in a hymn to human reproduction of the late '60s, a blues-inspired shout rooted in gospel...

Author: By Peter Loeb, | Title: Ivy-League Arrogance that Shatters Dreams | 6/6/1988 | See Source »

...studio quickly sutured the three episodes together and released them as a theatrical feature. Minimal expenditures, more revenue. Then Disney launched an afternoon program, The Mickey Mouse Club, which introduced the Mouseketeers, a troupe of child stars who cavorted like stagestruck Cub Scouts and intoned the show's anthem-hymn ("Who's the leader of the club/ That's made for you and me?/ M-I-C! K-E-Y!/ M-O-U-S-E!"). Disney had invented yet another addictive rite of passage, especially for all those preteen boys who avidly monitored the progress of young womanhood stirring under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Holding Their Banner High | 4/25/1988 | See Source »

...University of Arizona's future Western Civ courses, James Baldwin may stand with the seventh-century B.C. poet Sappho, while the Homeric Hymn to Demeter shares center stage with Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Canons Under Fire | 4/11/1988 | See Source »

They knelt and linked arms as a policeman called through a bullhorn that the gathering was illegal. Officers escorted the protesters into vans as others aimed jets from water cannons at scores of protesters who remained on the sidewalk praying and singing an African hymn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tutu, Other Clergy Arrested in Protest | 3/1/1988 | See Source »

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