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Hollywood thinks so too. Director Herbert Ross, who did Funny Girl and Footloose, is considering her, he says, for the lead in a movie about Stripper Blaze Starr. Producer Ray Stark has talked with her about starring in a film about Libby Holman, the '20s and '30s torch singer. "Considering" and "talking with" do not cost much, of course, but Madonna's considering is moving in the same direction. "I don't think of myself as a rock star," she tells an interviewer as she cools out in her hotel room after her concert two weeks ago in New Orleans...
Smoke spewed skyward from a cluster of Christian villages around the port of Sidon last week as Druze and Muslim forces, victors in a fresh outburst of fighting in Lebanon's ten-year-old civil war, put the torch to the plundered shops, homes and schools of Christians. Throughout the week, as militiamen from at least three different factions took over the region, residents of Beirut and Sidon drove into the villages to join in the looting. They loaded their cars and pickup trucks with furniture and clothing, raided vegetable gardens and stripped an entire banana plantation before returning home...
What are our alternatives? To start with, I propose a giant bonfire at a central campus location where we can all bring our argyle socks. Bean jackets, green and pink corduroy pants, monogrammed sweaters, and other preppie paraphernalia and torch it once and for all. This includes all the straw baskets, all trendy sunglasses (and neckstraps), and those ugly Bean blucher shoes...
...arbitrary shootings and killings of Tamils." Last December, for example, after a soldier was killed in the northern Mannar district, his comrades went on a rampage, shooting anyone in sight and leaving more than 100 Tamil civilians dead. Tamil women have been raped, Hindu temples put to the torch. In all, the commission cited 74 instances over a period of five months of soldiers indiscriminately firing on civilians. The government's policy of offering a $200 prize for each Tiger killed has served only to incite further army abuses. "What is the government trying to achieve here in Jaffna...
...Ueberroth's idea to run the Olympic torch across the nation, through hundreds of cities, by night and day. The idea provoked considerable derision. But it was a public relations masterstroke, a pageant in harmony with an emotional need vibrating at that moment in the American character. Ueberroth felt the vibration. The torch, slowly making its zigzag way across the land, became one of the unforgettable images...