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...then Perez was out of office, with plenty of time to ponder a lesson for the future. "A price spike is bad for everybody, producers and consumers alike," he says. "It is worst for developing countries that have oil, because they tend to go on a binge of happy-go-lucky indebtedness." Since returning to the presidency in early 1989, Perez has reined in government spending, reduced subsidies and tried to stimulate growth by easing restrictions on foreign trade and investment. He hopes that with infusions of capital from abroad, Venezuelan firms will be better able to sell their goods...
...study of popular culture has come under the fire of educational traditionalists, who charge that the university is a place to study high art--not vulgar forms of entertainment. They see infinitely more value in a treatise on Spinoza than a paper on Spike...
...Every once in a while," she explains, "someone would actually try to spike the ball over...
Hogan blames cost-risk minded producers for hindering further exploration of untraditional casting. "Lack of insight is costing Hollywood millions of financial dollars. Cross casting will reach a sector of the public that only filmmakers like Spike Lee are currently able to tap into," Hogan says...
Some rules never change. Even a studio as sympathetic to maverick talent as Universal Pictures will not release an X-rated film. "We want to support Phil's vision," says Universal president Tom Pollack, "as we did with Spike Lee on Do the Right Thing and Martin Scorsese on The Last Temptation of Christ." But if Henry & June loses its Oct. 3 appeal to the rating board, Kaufman has only two options: cut the film to the censors' pattern or take his movie to an independent distributor...