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eye WEEKLY                                              August 18 1994
Toronto's arts newspaper                      .....free every Thursday
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MEDIA HIT LIST                                          MEDIA HIT LIST

                               LIKE, WOW

                                  by
                               GREG BOYD

last week/this week

1/2	BACK TO THE GARDEN

Woodstock: Despite the easy target of crass commercialism (like the 
Surreal Field, a showroom for products made by Phillips, which 
controls the record company, PolyGram, that in turn owns the 
Woodstock name), this list remains convinced that the 25th 
anniversary Woodstock festival radiated just as much peace, love 
and groovy music as the 50th anniversary of D-Day.

2/3	DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER

Sporting lives: The world championship of basketball ends with 
America's Dream Team crushing opponents like so many snoozing 
roaches, only to be largely ignored by a U.S. sports press that has 
time only for the baseball strike.

3/	RETURN ENGAGEMENT

Fin de Si�cle: Infamous scourge of Western nations Carlos "The 
Jackal" arrested in Sudan and shipped to France, where he's easily 
as big as Jerry Lewis.

4/	CAUGHT WITH THE COOKIE JAR

Greed: Gazillionaire grocer Steve Stavro's attempt to snaffle up 
Maple Leaf Gardens for a fraction of its current market value is 
scuttled by the public trustee. All weasels to the lifeboats at 
Confederation Life, shut down by the feds for glaring financial 
inadequacy.

5/5	DECISIONS, DECISIONS

Qu�lection: TV ads begin, forcing viewers to choose between a fat, 
sweating economist and a thin, arid pol. The Queen arrives in Canada 
to open the Commonwealth Games and, to the dismay of federalistes, 
her mouth.

6/	NATURAL BORN WINNERS

Democracy: In the run-up to Mexican election, polls show that the 
governing PRI is so far ahead that it probably won't even have to 
cheat this time.

7/	BOMBS AREN'T US

Pax Americana: Germans arrest smugglers, seizing enough plutonium 
to create a good-sized inland sea. North Korea offers to switch its 
nuke program to a reactors that won't supply bomb-making material 
-- if the U.S. pays.

8/	CAMERA SHY

Kops: Photo radar arrives in Ontario, to the despair of those who 
affirm that driving dangerously fast on public highways is a 
constitutional right.

9/	HITTING THE BRICKS

Politeness: Toronto cabbies vote to strike. So next time you try to 
hail a cab and it motors right past, try to think of it as a blow for 
workers' rights.

10/4	HOME INVASION

No news: Eight paragraphs in The Sun tell the riveting true crime 
drama of the arrest of three Sun coin box thieves.



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