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...Francisco city government became so corrupt that a citizens' Vigilance Committee took over, violently. The year was 1856. Across the U.S. in Brooklyn, New York, Walt Whitman watched with approval. He wrote in his notebook, "These [United] States need one grand national Vigilance Committee, composed of the body of the people," to overthrow the government in Washington. Walt Whitman...
...evidence China intended to extend its hegemony across Southeast Asia and perhaps beyond." But he added, "I'm not at all sure now." While many Americans agree with him that the domino theory was probably founded on an illusion, not everyone is convinced. Rusk was not, and neither is Walt Rostow, who was special assistant to L.B.J. "This was a war about the balance of power in all of Southeast Asia," says Rostow. "We lost the battle in Vietnam, but we won the war in Southeast Asia...
...break more banks with his new Beau Rivage resort next year. The Grand's Kirk Kerkorian, when he's not plotting his takeover of Chrysler, looks at plans for his new hostelry, New York-New York, whose facade will be in the shape of the Manhattan skyline. Even the Walt Disney Co. is rumored to be looking at Las Vegas property-though Disney chairman Michael Eisner denies any interest in bringing Disney to Vegas...
DreamWorks SKG could become a nightmare if there are creative differences among the trio. The result could be similar to what happened when Katzenberg dramatically departed from the Walt Disney Co. One important difference is that the trio will be competing with other entertainment firms in Hollywood. These companies have been in business long enough to know the environment well. However, the director (Spielberg), the musician (Geffen) and the animator (Katzenberg) will not realize the threat that other companies pose until they are fully operational. The three will go their separate ways after establishing DreamWorks. But for now Hollywood...
Miller traces the development of the modern gay and lesbian community from Walt Whitman's poetry through the Bohemias of the 1920s to the Homophile movement of the 1950s and the age of AIDS, concluding with the first two years of Bill Clinton's presidency. Flipping through the book, you might see the section on the bizarre "Fruit Machine," a device used to detect homosexuality in Canadian civil servants during the 1950s by measuring the how wide a man's pupils dilated when he was shown a picture of a naked man. Such seemingly archaic trivia is engrossing, but most...