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...campaign got her reinstated. McConnell's spokesman says "allowances have to be made" because the complainant is hearing impaired. His boss, however, had a chance to stop him but didn't. Oscar-night parties are the Publishers Clearing House of the glossy magazines, with Vanity Fair throwing the premier bash in L.A. and Entertainment Weekly holding forth in Manhattan. George magazine entered the sweepstakes with its first party in Washington at the hilltop house of Peggy and Conrad Cafritz. Editor in chief John F. Kennedy Jr. attracted an intense power cluster, usurping for the moment the cluster power of General...
...film is beautifully shot. Both the actual landscape (lush islands, ocean sunsets, shockingly powerful surf) and the human landscape (wet t-shirts, naked torsos, bulging muscles) are fun to look at. The storm scene, where several tidal waves bash the Albatross to bits, is fantastically directed. It is terrifying and electrifying, and not surprising from the director of "Blade Runner" and "Alien." However, Scott could have done without the lingering shots of the drowning victims...
...which Republicans like Pete Wilson, Pat Buchanan and Phil Gramm tried to outworry each other on affirmative action, immigration and crime, along comes Forbes, who wipes the polarizing issues off the table. In their place is the Reaganesque liturgy of hope and opportunity: "You don't have to bash immigrants," says Forbes' former media adviser Sal Russo, "you don't have to condemn minorities, you don't have to talk about flag factories. You can appeal to the best instincts and be successful...
Criticism of conservatives and Republicans often seems partisan and shrill, but it is often simply a matter of right and wrong. While I have serious problems with the Democratic party as well, I believe that the Republicans are the worse of two evils. In this column, I once again bash Republicans with both fists...
...knows everybody but has just a few well-chosen close friends, most of them wives of current or former leaders of the defense or national-security apparatus: women married to men who can't talk about their work. When Colin retired, these wives got together and threw a bash for Alma--a slumber party with no husbands allowed...