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...this should change with "The White Balloon." Already acclaimed as one of the best international films of the decade, "The White Balloon" takes a simple plot and transforms it into an incredibly emotional and well-crafted piece of art. It has already won the Camera d'Or award and the International Critics' Prize in the Cannes film festival...
...Margaret Davenport about the Whitewater loan. "Notes of TK w/M. Davenport," handwritten notes on Hillary's personal notepaper read. At the top right-hand corner is the date 1987. "56,623 balance. 2,303.78 Oct. 3." On the side is an arrow, then "5 yr amortization. w/2 yr balloon. 1 2/3. Note secured by mortgage recorded Aug. 3, 1978 on 171 acres known as Whitewater Estates. Original $100,121 note...
...just scratch his head over what Mr. Forbes got for his money. Well, for one thing, when tassel-loafered ad buyers climb the gangway of the Highlander, the Forbes Inc. yacht, they will probably think they're hobnobbing not with the shy, bespectacled son of a legendary hot-air-balloon-flying publisher but with a once and perhaps future presidential candidate. Forbes made the Oedipal analogy himself last week when he said, with a smile, that if he won the Connecticut primary, "I wouldn't need a balloon...
There was a curious moment last week when all the air seemed to ebb out of the Forbes balloon. On the night of Junior Tuesday, when Forbes finished second in Connecticut but no better than third in any other state, he and his campaign manager, Bill Dal Col, mused about a way for Forbes to persevere as a candidate of ideas without terminally alienating the Republican Party. Dal Col himself was mindful of the example of Jim Baker, George Bush's 1980 campaign manager, who yanked his eager candidate out of the race so that it would not poison Bush...
...that bleak Tuesday last week, Forbes' natural optimism was rewarded: Jack Kemp, in bed with the flu, called to say that, yes, he would finally endorse his fellow progrowth traveler. Suddenly the hot air whooshed back into the Forbes campaign balloon. But Kemp then seemed to have second thoughts about his belated impulse. The day after he came aboard he was disturbed to learn that Forbes was planning a new round of negative ads. Kemp telephoned Dole headquarters, wanting to speak to the Senator. "The good news," said a top Dole fund raiser, "is that Dole has a short memory...