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...raising a family, and two teenagers who have little on their minds except sex. The show's attitudes are hip, but the plot twists are strictly Donna Reed: in one episode, Mom advises 14-year-old Jesse that he ought to be more frank in trying to woo his girlfriend. When he goes too far, the girl's father shows up on their doorstep and punches (who else?) Jesse's dad in the mouth. A laugh track tinkles wanly in the background as if someone were too embarrassed to turn it up louder. As well they should...
...discontent" with the guttural fury of a drill sergeant, Sir Ian McKellen's Richard III is arrestingly cruel and humorless, all chill and absolutely no charm. Not for him the leisurely glories of the play's language or the seductions of direct address and droll comedy to woo an audience. In a role that can epitomize the concept of the villain one loves to hate, McKellen avoids anything lovable or even approachable. This production, which has won raves from London to Cairo to Tokyo and which opened a 16-week, six-city U.S. tour last week, is an unrelenting portrait...
Such political activism is hardly free of self-interest. Comedy Central's ratings nearly tripled when it provided humorous commentary to accompany President Bush's State of the Union address last January. Its more ambitious convention coverage, it hopes, will woo even more viewers to the channel. The motive of the record-industry executives who started Rock the Vote two years ago was to ward off censorship in the music business. They believed that their best defense against restrictive legislation would be to mobilize a constituency of voters among young music fans. Hence the organization set up voter-registration tables...
...mate from, say, New Hampshire just to bring geographical balance to the ticket. He'd rather draft a can-do hero. Insiders say Colin Powell has been on his short list. But Perot's greatest ticket-building efforts so far, according to one report, have been spent trying to woo Desert Storm commander NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF. Frustrated voters would be likely to cheer Stormin' Norman as just the sort of guy who could help get things done in Washington. But Schwarzkopf, who reportedly has turned down Perot at least twice, regards the * Texan with dismay as a loose cannon. Besides...
...Benno?" A bitter strike by graduate-student teaching assistants and recent recommendations for sharp cutbacks in faculty and the elimination of several academic departments damaged campus morale. But Schmidt, 50, managed to assuage some students by serenading them with country-and-western tunes on his guitar and to woo some alums with his impressive fund-raising talents; over the past two years he raised more than $600 million...