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Nomi dreams of becoming a professional dancer but has to settle for stripping and doing lap dances at the seedy Cheetah club in order to make ends meet. Still, she entertains loftier ambitions: namely starring in "Goddess," a cheesy S & M revue at the Stardust...
However, with its talent, the Crimson could realistically set its sights on loftier goals--specifically some of the nationally ranked teams Harvard faces on its annual California trip...
...celebrity hucksters embrace their role so readily. Lansbury, the star of Murder, She Wrote, cites loftier goals for her promotion of a series of videotapes of Beatrix Potter stories. "Children today are denied the luxury of innocence in their childhood," she says. "I wanted to sell these tapes. Show your children this, I thought, don't show them Ninja Turtles. Start them off with little allegorical tales, not those violent cartoons and movies...
...York State with Ontario, bellowing excerpts from a Washington Post article through a bullhorn to Canadians on the far shore. WXYT, a Detroit AM station, provides Canadians in neighboring Windsor with an hour-long reading of the same article. The show, seditiously dubbed "Radio Free Windsor," has a loftier purpose, according to Michael Packer, WXYT's director of operations: "It's a reminder to the American side of the importance of freedom of the press...
Mayo's main objection to Council member Tom E. Woods' selection--the United Daughters of the Confederacy--was much loftier. Dredging up the whole Confederate flag ordeal, Mayo suggests that these ladies exist to offend the likes of Senator Carol Moseley-Braun, rather than to preserve Southern culture. Mayo responds to Woods' description of Moseley-Braun as an "arrogant elite" by suggesting that Peninsula is presumptuous in suggesting that a Black female could actually be an elite. I hope all of those who feel black women are unqualified to be members of the elite are, like Mayo, no longer part...