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...Mouse. They were shocked -- and galvanized. But some of the Old Guard was not amused. Ground had already been broken at Epcot for a new hotel complex, and Disney's partner in the project was determined to hire a conventional architect to create a conventionally upscale hotel -- a meretricious riot of Trumpian brass and glass. Eisner, however, wanted Graves, at the time the hottest architect in the country, to design the 758-room Swan and the 1,514-room Dolphin. "I said, 'Look, we're an entertainment company.' " Eisner got his architect, and the Disney adventure in big-time, high...
...Rose, lead screamer for Guns N' Roses, worries about his image -- the visual one, anyway. Concert promoters in Missouri are suing him for throwing a tantrum and sparking a riot after he spotted a fan videotaping him. A week later at a concert for 20,000 fans,Rose showed up two hours late...
Like Do the Right Thing, which began as a live-action Sesame Street and then flipped out into a race riot, Jungle Fever is really two movies in one: the first hour an essay on various volatile issues, the second a dramatization of how these issues inform and ruin ordinary lives. Lee tries hard to spread the intensity, and the ignorance, judiciously. He lets a geek chorus of Italian- American guys in Bensonhurst blame black men for everything from Central Park rapes to the mongrelization of jockdom. "They took our sports," one fellow grouses, "baseball, football, basketball, boxing. What...
...riot illuminates long-simmering hostilities between Washington's Latino underclass and the black power structure. Many African-American residents were shocked to learn that Hispanics have a list of grievances against them that mimic black complaints about discrimination by whites. Hispanics complain that they hold only 1% of the jobs in local government though they constitute 5% of the population. They also say they are routinely harassed by the mostly black police force...
...poll tax prompted a bloody riot in London, helped bring about Thatcher's resignation and threatened to unseat the ruling Conservative Party in national elections, which must be held by mid-1992. Major's new scheme would assess owners and renters alike on the basis of the value of their dwellings, with a 25% reduction for individuals living alone. The poor will be exempt...