Word: variously
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...everybody wants a piece of Parker and Stone. All the networks are interested in whatever they do for their next TV show, as are various production companies ranging from DreamWorks to Warner Bros. to Fox to Paramount. But Comedy Central isn't about to let them go. The network is renegotiating their contract upwards, and will make the change retroactive to South Park's debut. It is also seeking a long-term commitment from the pair...
Seven years after the Brown school- desegregation decision, six years after the Montgomery bus boycott, the Congress of Racial Equality had dispatched a few buses loaded with Freedom Riders--young Negro civil rights workers and a few whites--to challenge segregation laws in various public facilities in the Deep South. The bus driver yelled to the Anniston crowd, "Well, boys, here they are. I brought you some niggers and nigger-lovers...
...that prove this is more than a crush. At one point, when Giles is supposed to give a lecture on some esoteric element of literature, he instead delves into the topic of acting. As he describes what makes a good actor, we see Giles' mental visualizations of Ronnie's various smiles. Hurt skillfully portrays his character's anguish through his earnestly heartfelt stares and contemplative manner of speech...
Amid all the various kerfuffles over content and how to make money off it, the Wall Street Journal's Interactive Edition has announced that it expects to become profitable for the first time early in 1999, boosted by its 175,000 loyal subscribers, most of whom pay $49 a year, and the many advertisers who pay a $60 CPM for access to those rich, technology-oriented eyeballs. The Interactive Edition's head count is large -- around 120 employees, half of whom are working on content -- but we did the math, and the 1999 date sounds quite plausible...
...with USA Today's lede of an ex-Espy aide getting a harsh 27 months upriver, and what that could mean for Clinton. He notes that the Washington Post favors the upcoming Hyde-Gingrich peek at Ken Starr's investigation, and that the New York Times features, in its various editions, an indecisive study of education methods; a NYC school-uniforms policy; and sniping over the 1999 budget between Clinton and Congressional Republicans. The LA Times gets a shout out for its continued scrutiny of local and state prisons. And, finally, S's SS believes that the WSJ piece...