Michael Musto, the Village Voice celebrity columnist, dismisses the current interest in Africa as merely the cause-of-the-moment among A-listers and charities.
I haven't found any statistics on what percentage of shootings are caused by sheer stupidity or spur-of-the-moment anger, but the accepted wisdom is that most murders are the result of sudden emotional rages, not careful planning (this is borne out in statistics that show murderers return to jail less often than other felons).
Gay rights may be the civil rights cause of the moment, but the movement fits into a larger historical narrative.
Yet Dodge's passion was not cultivated conversation but free speech, the left-wing political cause of the moment that was also the left-wing cultural cause.
The women of the Cowgirl Museum point out that, rather than pursuing the fashionable cause of the moment, they are inspired by devotion to horses and cattle.
They pointed out that their quest for lower farm subsidies and tariffs had become the cause of the moment, much like debt relief was several years ago.
The American military is also privately skeptical of humanitarian gestures that put the lives of troops at risk for the cause of the moment, while being of only tenuous national interest.
Bloomberg arrived late at the event, as Paterson was citing the Dred Scott case, in the course of a triumphant windup linking the cause of the moment to generations of struggle for civil rights.
He can draw more cameras now than he did then, he can help with movie industry problems like DVD and VHS piracy and the migration of film and television production out of state, and his enormous star power could help or hinder Hollywood's big political cause of the moment: defeating Mr. Bush.
Her cause of the moment, back then in 1963, was Madame Nhu, the so-called Dragon Lady of South Vietnam.
