Word: pied
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...print charts detailing the convoluted relationships among the show's three-dozen- plus characters. Quirky scenes and dialogue have entered TV's collective memory bank, like Lucy's spread of doughnuts for Sheriff Truman and his deputies: "A policeman's dream." At George Washington University, students launched Thursday-night pie-eating rituals: everybody digs in as soon as FBI agent Cooper bites into a slice of cherry or huckleberry. Fans are trading theories about Laura's killer (the Log Lady? the sheriff?), while a European video version of the pilot identifies the killer as a drifter named Robert...
...most ominous feature of the Soviet landscape is the economic crisis. Virtually every republic and region of the country is dissatisfied with its piece of the economic pie, so each tries to protect its own interests any way it can. As long as the economy was growing -- and as long as the old political institutions suppressed any hint of nationalism or regionalism -- the system remained intact. But now the economy is in decline. That fact, combined with democratization, has doomed central planning and exacerbated the centrifugal trends that threaten to tear the country apart...
...itself, that proves nothing. Who cares about the size of the slices if the pie is larger? But Government interest payments do nothing to make the pie any larger -- except to the extent that the borrowed money was invested productively. And the share of Government spending going to productive investment has declined over the decade, as our crumbling infrastructure can attest. So interest payments on the national debt have made at least a small contribution to income inequality without any growth payoff. If traditional welfare is paying people not to work (a common gripe), this is the capitalist equivalent: paying...
...condescendingly. Baldwin plays Junior with a goofy grin and the scheming intensity of a small mind spinning its wheels and getting nowhere. Ward finds Hoke's integrity down at his heels. And Leigh, a gifted chameleon who deserves stardom, can wring pathos just by reading a recipe for vinegar pie or walking up the path to a house she will never own. Handsomely made, wonderfully acted, Miami Blues is the kind of picture Hollywood ought to be making more of. If only...
...ORLEANS JAZZ & HERITAGE FESTIVAL. Ten days of hot music (jazz, blues, R. and B., Zydeco, gospel) and spicy food (jambalaya, crawfish pie, gumbo, red beans and rice), set in America's premier party town. Now in its 21st year, the festival will play host to some 3,000 musicians, including local artists and such international stars as B.B. King, Ramsey Lewis, Linda Ronstadt, Gary Burton, Ornette Coleman and the Crescent City's own Neville Brothers. April 27 through...