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...gonna watch hours of tapes of myself, and I don't want to rehash all those debates." But this tape was crystalline in its message: it had been carefully edited to exclude all the other candidates, leaving only Bush onscreen with his scripted, repetitive answers and awkward impromptus. The Texas Governor plopped the tape into a VCR, watched it alone at the mansion and got the picture. "I'm a competitor," he told TIME last week. "I want to win. And I'm wise enough to understand that all of us need to improve in life...
...like awkward teenagers at a disco, neither India nor America seems to have the wherewithal to get the other to touch-dance. President Clinton is set to visit India in March, but the tentative nature of this week's talks between Treasury Secretary Larry Summers and Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott and their Indian counterparts underline the fact that relations between these "natural partners" remain bedeviled by history and geopolitics...
...Even close friends who?ve worked with him for years say they don?t know him very well at all," says TIME Moscow correspondent Andrew Meier. "He rose quickly in the KGB in the '80s, but by doing what he was told rather than by distinguishing himself. He?s awkward in public and extremely reluctant to talk to the media. And he studiously maintained a low profile until last August, when he seemed to appear from nowhere to be named Yeltsin?s heir...
Observing these blessed creatures, coveting their unearned good fortune, is Damon's Ripley, more muted and awkward than they but a fast study. Ripley's outsider status is what especially appealed to Minghella, 45, a playwright and former professor whose Italian immigrant parents still make and sell ice cream on the Isle of Wight. "This sense of a man with his nose pressed up against the window, the sense that there's a better life being led by other people--to me, these feelings are familiar and pungent...
...thrilling rendition of "Naughty Baby" and her catfights with both Bobby's mother (Jenn Hyman ??) and Polly. Roth's ultimate love interest is found in Lank Hawkins (Jonathan Steinberger '01), a gun-toting, tough-talking, scene-stealing cowboy, who, along with Ben Kornell '02 as the ever-awkward Moose and Nick Weil '00 as the would-be actor Wyatt, provides some of the funniest moments in "Crazy for You." Irene and Lank's duo in the number "Naughty Baby" is one of the show's highest points...