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...LOUIS: President Clinton today faces a task almost as daunting as a hostile job interview: He's going to St. Louis to tout "Welfare to Work," a struggling boot-strap program that's supposed to help 10,000 welfare recipients find jobs within five years...
Cypress Hill touts the Almighty Blunt, the Living Stones tout the Almighty God. It is not clear to me what makes their message any more dangerous to share...
...clear that [my script] had been written by an amateur, but I think that they expected that," he says. "I suspect that they were also excited to tout something new and unique, a young kid writing a screen-play...
...former Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young points out, Connerly and his ilk quote King on a highly selective basis. They tout the passage from the "I have a dream" speech about judging his children not "by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." But they ignore an earlier passage in which King angrily declared, "When the architects of our Republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was the promise that all men, yes, black...
Godot might have been obscure, but Beckett no longer was. Tout Paris swarmed to his play, and the theater world soon caught up. After a disastrous U.S. premiere in Miami, Godot had a respectable Broadway run with E.G. Marshall as Vladimir and Bert Lahr as Estragon. Other beguiling star tandems never quite materialized: Alec Guinness and Ralph Richardson in London; Buster Keaton and Marlon Brando on Broadway. In the '60s, Steve McQueen wanted to star in a Godot film. Beckett declined...