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Dates: during 1990-1999
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City Lights (United Artists). It is almost a law in publicity-loving Southern California that the two greatest personalities there present shall hobnob while the press & public loudly cheer or jeer. Usually this means William Randolph Hearst and whatever foreign personage happens to be visiting. But last week it meant Charles Spencer Chaplin and Albert Einstein. All of Hollywood's police reserves turned out to make tunnels through the populace so that Mr. Chaplin could escort Dr. Einstein to see the first new Chaplin film in two years...
...only gesture he could think of in the face of world disaster: a plea to Germany, Poland, Britain, France, Italy to refrain from bombing "open" cities and noncombatants. Within a few hours the heads of all these nations replied, in a chorus that sounded sickeningly cynical, however truly meant: they would each do as Mr. Roosevelt suggested so long as their antagonists did likewise. Mussolini took the occasion to reiterate Italy's neutrality...
...delicate balance of politics with the popular but dangerously destructive power of a sledgehammer. More often than not, both sides in the state's Voter Information packet agree the measure does not exactly address the state's political and fiscal reality, and so it is no surprise these measures meant to act out the direct will of the people instead become court cases...
Ironically, the instrument of government meant to bring the most power to the people now drops decisions into the laps of state Supreme Court judges and prevents either side from being satisfied. When court appeals and amicae briefs are the most important locus for lawmaking, the initiative system has been hopelessly debased. Lacking in legislative finesse, ineffective propositions lead voters to despair and stop voting, or, more wisely, vote "no" on bills regardless of their content. Then, the status quo is safe--and any chance for reform is on the ropes...
...have an intense dislike and an intense rivalry," said Canadian coach Shannon Miller after seeing 20 penalties in a preliminary game, on Valentine's Day, that officially meant nothing. But when the American women beat her team for the second time in three days, Miller looked up and "had a feeling of joy going through my body. Because what I realized was an Olympic gold medal was being hung around the neck of a female hockey player...