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...level in the baby-shower episode. The visiting TV newswomen do surprisingly well in their cameo appearances, delivering quips about such things as balancing career and motherhood. (Says Williams: "I once asked Garrick Utley if he had to make a boom-boom.") But the encounter simply lends a bogus aura of credibility to a show that seems phony at its soul. And why do all the guests at the shower come from the soft-news world of morning TV? Apparently, the hard-news reporters whom Murphy is really modeled after -- Diane Sawyer, Lesley Stahl -- were too busy doing real work...
State of the Union eerily presages the aura of excitement that Ross Perot is bringing to the 1992 presidential race. Like Tracy in the movie, the billionaire Texas tycoon can be described as boasting "the rare combination of sincerity and drive that the common herd will go for. They think he's one of them. He thinks he's one of them." But Perot scorns the two-party politics that tripped up Tracy and instead is mobilizing the energies of the little people -- the John and Jane Does of the land -- in a citizens' crusade to collect...
...always matched up well against Princeton," senior goalie Chris Miller said. "There's not the same aura about them as other teams, and we have nothing to lose...
Besides capitalizing on the strong anti-incumbent trends in 90s U.S. politics, Brown has also tried to recapture his former aura of hipness...
...draft status during the Vietnam War nearly sank Clinton's candidacy. Though he staged a gutsy comeback, neither his campaign nor his image has fully recovered from the trauma. Says his campaign manager, David Wilhelm: "Because of what happened to us, we lost for the time being the aura of the serious, thoughtful candidate...