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...just people on the right like Katherine Harris and Ted Nugent who seem especially silly being likened to Parks. I first cringed at this "Rosa Parks c'est moi" phenomenon last October at Ralph Nader's lefty rally at Madison Square Garden. Ever sit in a coliseum full of people who think they're heroes? I was surrounded by thousands of well-meaning, well-fed white kids who loved it when filmmaker Michael Moore told them they should, like Rosa Parks, stand up to power, by which I think he meant vote for Nader so he could qualify for federal...
...Hedwig always did. When it opened off-Broadway three years ago, critics raved about Stephen Trask's songs, and although the show's writer and star, John Cameron Mitchell, appeared nightly in drag (usually the fastest road to camp marginalization), his hilarious, moving mock concert became a mainstream theatrical phenomenon. "In the whole long, sorry history of rock musicals," declared Rolling Stone, "Hedwig and the Angry Inch is the first one that truly rocks...
...school calendar is seen by many as a quaint holdover from the agrarian economy when students needed weekends and summers off to help till the family farm. And it's a distinctly American phenomenon. While most American students spend their late afternoons and weekends doing nothing in particular, students in other nations simply devote more days to schoolwork. Italian and Korean children have more than 200 school days; Chinese kids have 250 - and, unsurprisingly, many tend to outscore their American peers. Add that to the growing research showing that during those long summer vacations, when memories fade and learning...
...press time, Hulsey did not know his friend was behind the phenomenon...
Occasionally, SAS sells hard-to obtain products that are necessary for the projects in the column to amateurs, which gives a crude estimate of the number of people who are attempting the projects described. The most popular column demonstrated the phenomenon of audio illusions, which are roughly analogous to their visual counterparts; 700 copies were sold...