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...Jefferson Smith come at last? With all that bipartisan grinning over the budget deal, it's almost as if there were suddenly a functioning democracy in Washington. Of course, there's still Jesse Helms. Confused? Get to the guts of the Beltway, Hollywood-style. Follow Jimmy Stewart to town with 1939's Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Frank Capra's valiant paen to all that's great about this country of ours. Back that up with Born Yesterday, the 1950 Holden/Holliday original, and you'll be running for city councilman by the time the tape's rewound. So be sure...
...refreshing for us folks in fly-over country to be seen in a deeper perspective. We actually are the backbone of America. East Coast intellectuals, West Coast moralists, self-promoting Beltway politicians and media liberals usually see us only as a source of funding for social programs. However, whether it's taking up arms to defend our nation, starting businesses that provide employment and expansion, or inventing things that make our lives better, in the main it is we along the backbone who do it. LARRY M. HEWIN Williamsburg...
...America does not lie on either coast. After decades in the East, we moved to the Southwest 3 1/2 years ago. We're not merely living in Texas, we're really living. The values and standards set by the Bible Belt and the Rodeo Belt show us that the Beltway is a profanity. And even when this living delight ends, my ashes are not going back East! DICK GRAY New Braunfels, Texas
...bikini line vs. the bottom line. It's the underpinnings of an inside-the-Beltway underwear war. It's HANES vs. FRUIT OF THE LOOM, a high-stakes trade battle over who's going to wear the underpants in the family. At issue: a $200 million provision attached to the budget bill that would allow briefs and other goods manufactured in the Caribbean to enter the U.S. at dramatically lower tariffs. Fearing that the provision would help competitors munch into its market, FRUIT OF THE LOOM has hired former Senate majority leader turned lobbyist BOB DOLE to oppose the measure...
...Dawson. Really slow weekend? Try Tommy Lee Jones and Faye Dunaway in 1978's "The Eyes of Laura Mars," about the terror stalking of a high-fashion photographer, or scour the classics shelves for the 1948 Dragnet precursor "He Walks By Night," with Richard Basehart as the debonair slasher. Beltway addicts, of course, will want to skip right to "Julius Caesar." Just make sure it's the 1953 version, with Brando as the Emperor Newt...