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Congressman Tom Delay, the pest-control expert from Laredo, Texas, knows all about the black art of extermination. So how did the majority whip so thoroughly botch the job he undertook two weeks ago, when he tried to eradicate a king-size Newt...
None of this fazes Taymor. "I told them I wanted to go for elegance, not cute," she says. "The Lion King is a very commercial work, but what they've let me do is very experimental. I was totally delighted and surprised." Tom Schumacher, Disney's executive vice president of theatrical productions, first encountered Taymor when he was a producer for the 1984 Olympics Arts Festival, where he hoped to put on a musical she had co-written. That didn't work out, but a decade later--after Taymor had won acclaim for her presentations of opera (Oedipus Rex), children...
Throughout my journey, I met interesting folks, including Tom Mix's mother-in-law, a former circus performer who showed me how to walk a tightrope and two old-maid sisters who lived in an unpainted house and produced elegant wallpaper designs. More than 40 years ago, after a boyhood spent in a small Kansas town, I took this trip, and I was not surprised to find that America had a warm heart and lots of common sense. It is still true today, and your Highway 50 caravan proves it. CLYDE HOSTETTER San Luis Obispo, Calif...
...October 1991 shortly after his government was overthrown by a military coup. As the firm lobbied U.S. officials to bolster support for Aristide's return to power, Thompson pitched in by calling JOHN SUNUNU, chief of staff for the Bush White House, to discuss Aristide's case. TOM DAFFRON, Thompson's chief of staff, says there is absolutely, totally, nothing similar between foreign governments seeking to influence U.S. policy by hiring a lobbyist and foreign governments seeking to influence U.S. policy by giving campaign contributions. "One's legal, and the other is illegal," he explains...
...buffs will remember Walter Cronkite's walk-on at the end of a Mary Tyler Moore Show episode more than two decades ago. With Contact, however, the journalistic community's sensitivity to the blurring of the lines between news and entertainment has caused some sober second thoughts. CNN president Tom Johnson said last week that in the future such appearances will probably be banned, bringing the cable network in line with the longtime policies...