Big Trouble FILM FOE Godzilla A big lizard Deep Impact A big rock Everest A big rock Armageddon A really big rock Titanic A big iceberg Antz A big shoe Rounders A big hand The Truman Show A big dome Mercury Rising Big Brother Primary Colors Big politics Wag the Dog Big spin Six Days, […]
Yearly Archives: 1998
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Creature From the Marquette Park Lagoon
The man was five foot eleven. The carp was five foot three. The battle was epic.
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The Desert Song
THE DESERT SONG Sigmund Romberg’s operetta The Desert Song was a rousing hit when it debuted on Broadway in 1926, but the genre was already on the wane in the States. By the end of World War II, the musical had won over American audiences–even though little but the operetta’s reliance on classically trained voices […]
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They’re All Connected
They’re All Connected Politicians love playing games–with the truth, with taxpayers’ money, you name it. So why not play a game with politicians? See if you can put these rascals behind bars–in 1998 they all pleaded guilty or were convicted or sentenced. DIRECTIONS: Take turns drawing a line between two dots. Players who complete an […]
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The Gift of a Future
After Eugenia Cobbinah’s murder, her classmates are making sure her legacy lives on.
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Mayor Daley Living (Martha Steward Living magazine cover spoof)
Mayor Daley Living 101 Ways to Cook Bobby Rush’s Goose Decorative Ethics Reforms for Election Season Ten Former Subway Peddlers Who Want to Be Your Butler Seeing Michigan– It’s as easy as falling off a bike! Tired of Homeless People? Build a Lovely Fence! Glittering New Ways to Subsidize Developers Precinct voted dry? Great Moonshine […]
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The Liar’s Club
What happened when writers took the truth into their own hands
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Managing Fine
cohen2.qxd To the editors, As a senior with a limited income, I am as much concerned with the cost and quality of medicare as anyone else and agree that there is undoubtedly room for improvement. But it does seem as though Ben Joravsky’s article on the subject [December 11] contains some confusion and misinformation. Most […]
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Running for Covers
Metallica Garage Inc. (Elektra) By Jon Fine Metallica is the first underground metal band to sell out football stadiums. And live, when they whip out the material that made them famous–as opposed to the material they’ve made while famous–you can see why. Like Cheap Trick, and unlike the wheezing, TelePrompTer-reliant Black Sabbath, they can still […]
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Man Out of Time/ Prisoners of Hate/ Love Me Do
By Michael Miner Man Out of Time The last time the Reader looked in on Paul Obis, the publisher of In These Times had rooted out an embezzler in the ranks who’d helped himself to about $125,000. Obis resigned the other day, and it might surprise you to hear the judgment of his boss: “He […]
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Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer
One of the best essay films ever made on a cinematic subject, Thom Andersen’s remarkable and sadly neglected hour-long documentary (1974) adroitly combines biography, history, film theory, and philosophical reflection. Muybridge’s photographic studies of animal locomotion in the 1870s were a major forerunner of movies; even more interesting are his subsequent studies of diverse people, […]
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Bring ‘Em Back Alive/ Christmas Cards/ Twisted History/ Banned, on the Run
Christian Johnson and Eric St. Clair/ Radio Active