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...musical, most music videos are not even booklet musicals. VH1 has hired Francis Coppola to oversee a series of special, half-hour music videos directed by important younger filmmakers, and it seems axiomatic that if some new species of live-action long-form musical is to evolve, it will owe at least as much to R.E.M.'s video Everybody Hurts, say, as to Vincente Minnelli's Meet Me in St. Louis. A big problem with Newsies, admits Menken, was that "it didn't resemble a video enough. There weren't enough camera angles...
...encourage nascent nationalists in Peru and Chile to declare independence from Spain. Success in this mission would achieve two goals that Maturin, half-Irish, half-Catalan, passionately desires: a blow to the Spanish oppressors of Catalonia and a setback for Napoleon, since the newly liberated countries would presumably owe allegiance to Britain rather than France for their freedom...
Some of the doings of this Miami trio border on the farcical. Womack complains that his phone has been temporarily disconnected because of his constant calls to Port-au-Prince. "I can't get reimbursed for the $3,000 I owe the phone company," he says. Although firmly supportive of Haiti's military regime, Womack says he "got involved with these folks initially last spring to do business." He details an elaborate plan to tap U.S. aid funds for low-interest loans that would be used to transport New York City garbage to Haiti, where it would be processed into...
...Michel's career, by contrast, demonstrates that politics can be a noble and honorable profession, even in this profoundly antigovernment age. All of us owe him gratitude for his distinguished service--though most of us probably don't realize our debt. In coming years, unfortunately, Americans who had never heard of Bob Michel may begin to realize what they've lost...
...will see us on campus passing out literature, tabling, holding consciousness-raising demonstrations, and hosting all-day teach-ins on the debt. If you care about your economic future, then you owe it to yourself and your generation to learn more about this crisis and become a part of Harvard Lead or Leave, your generation's vanguard...