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...Jamie Drummond, an organizer of Jubilee 2000, says Bono signed on to the project after learning that the $200 million that "LiveAid" had made is the amount of money that the countries of Africa pays in debt every five days...
...waiting rooms, schools, libraries, literacy centers, highway rest stops, on Amtrak trains and in other public place." Reacting to what appears to be the growing irrelevance of poetry in American culture, the big-hitters of American poetry will be coming out in droves to support the genre, a veritable LiveAid for the literary world. Aside from a brief spate of spoken-word spots on MTV, pop culture seems to have forsaken poetry altogether. Which makes us wonder, can a nationwide publicity blitz sway today's younger readers? What America really needs now is Courtney Love, wearing a diaphanous nightie, reading...
...years. Even though some of the initial panic about the new deadly virus has died down in this country, in Africa, where it originally developed, it is present in frighteningly large percentages and shows no sign of slowing. Also in Africa, the Ethiopian famine that prompted the LiveAid benefit concert still has a death grip on that country...
...world of popular music in the last few years seems to have saturated the market with benefit albums. LiveAid, "Sun City", USA for Africa, FarmAid, "That's What Friends Are For" for AIDS, Hands Across America--what's next? One wonders if others, observing the good publicity and massive record sales of Geldof's aid efforts, are not just using charity for self-promotion...
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