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...Freedom Corps. Republicans are against paying people with time on their hands to do what they might do anyway. In 1997 House majority leader Dick Armey called AmeriCorps a "welfare program for aspiring yuppies," and Senator Rick Santorum described it as a sweet deal for those "picking up trash in a park and singing Kumbaya...
...that amount. But last year credit-fraud victims spent countless hours and an average of $1,173 to restore their credit ratings. And all it takes to get the ball rolling is one crooked telemarketer or someone who fishes a receipt or "preapproved" credit-card offer out of your trash...
...that's just the problem with the Palais de Tokyo's approach: it's fake. The works on display are all in keeping with the bogus trash aesthetic. The most significant is Chinese artist Wang Du's No Comment, a giant wastepaper basket filled with old newspapers and three TV sets, a visual pun on the notion of trash TV. In Taxi Biennale - a garishly airbrushed comic strip presenting the adventures of "Curatorman, the young CEO of the global player ?uratorman Inc." - Thailand's Navin Rawanchaikul offers a labored reworking of another hoary old chestnut: the relationship between...
...Tonya Harding is not--nor has she ever been--like most skaters. She is neither politic nor polished, sociable nor sophisticated. Instead, she is the bead of raw sweat in a field of dainty perspirers; the asthmatic who heaves uncontrollably while others pant prettily; the pool-playing, drag-racing, trash-talking bad girl of a sport that thrives on illusion and politesse...
...GLORY OF LIVING "He's mean," says the young girl of the man who has kidnapped her. "He is?" replies the man's abused teenage wife and partner in crime. No social critic could express with more eloquence or economy the plight of the white-trash couple Rebecca Gilman chronicles in her deadpan, slice-of-lowlife drama. This 1997 play, having its New York premiere in a fine production directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman and starring Anna Paquin, is a stunner...