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...month fetus, which survived. "Gingrich appears to have something approaching political Tourette's syndrome," says Washington correspondent John Dickerson. "The list of things he's said and had to apologize for is proving that point. People expected that once he moved from the back bench into the daily spotlight that he would be able to exorcise that tendency, but it may take a little longer than people thought. He is giving his political enemies an early Christmas present...
This Anthology is an authorized bio-pic--the official history. If Paul, George and Ringo have stepped back into the Beatle spotlight, they have done so on tiptoe. The lads freely discuss their drug use--what Paul calls the "herbal-jazz cigarettes," which garnered arrests for several of the Beatles, and the experiments with lsd. When they were told that acid could alter their minds, McCartney recalls, "John was rather excited by that prospect, and I was rather frightened." McCartney also talks about the strippers they dated in the Hamburg bars. But all are mum on sexual escapades after those...
Director Tim Foley has transformed this space into a surprisingly apt theatre. The intimacy of the room emphasizes the claustrophobic nature of the Danish court. While the limitations of the theatre quickly become obvious (the ghost is a spotlight accompanied by clashing orchestral chords, for instance), they are minimal...
...seven weeks, Russian voters will elect a new parliament. The last time they did this, in December 1993, they voted strongly for conservative and ultranationalist politicians including Vladimir Zhirinovsky, demagogues who captured the national spotlight by denouncing Yeltsin's half-finished experiment with reform and by promising a return to the stability and prestige Russians enjoyed during the days of the old Soviet Union. In the past two years, Yeltsin has managed to stave off numerous attempts by parliament to derail Russia's halting transition to democratic pluralism. But if the balance tips even further in this next election...
...should be remembered that Yasser Arafat was catapulted into the international spotlight even before the advent of his brainchild, the "Intifada." Scarcely five years after the adoption of the Camp David Accords, the first honest effort at Middle East peace, this terrorist-turned-Harvard lecturer was coordinating the most effective, bloody exercises in civilian warfare since the end of the Second World...