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Attempting to get topical, Cope sinks into a mire of sentimentality and bombast. From Peggy' liner notes: "This classical mythical image of 'enlightenment' ironically mirrored the supposed death of the world through the Greenhouse Effect. It was a beautiful and absurd double-edged sword. This enormous Mother Earth was standing at the very edge of the highest cliff of Infinity--and was about to leap off...I had to make this record about the crazy situation...
...admiration and courtship of many of the right people, and the anger and fear of many of the left people. What hot- blooded conservative could ask for anything more? "This show is not about what you think," he often intones. "This show is about what I think." Bombast away...
...past the Bush team had undercut its attacks on Clinton's draft record by couching them in ridicule and bombast. Under Baker's orders, Teeter asked campaign counsel Bobby Burchfield to pull together the record in a clear, undramatic fashion and let the public judge. Burchfield turned out a lengthy, side-by-side comparison of Clinton's comments over the past year that fueled numerous news reports. "Basically," says Burchfield, "this is a situation where the histrionics could very easily get in the way of the message we're trying to put out, which is look at what...
Parrying Buchanan's bombast will require finesse. In New Hampshire, Bush declined to attack Buchanan directly and never mentioned him by name. The decision, according to a campaign adviser, was based on the belief that "people voted for Buchanan as a protest, so it wouldn't have mattered if we had gone negative on him in New Hampshire. Even if they'd thought Buchanan was a kook, they still would have voted for him." The same danger lurks in the South, especially in such states as Georgia, Mississippi and Texas, where Democrats are allowed to vote in G.O.P. primaries. Moreover...
...great and petty, of our age. Art Buchwald says he hopes there will be good air and good water, though "we didn't leave you any." The late Joseph Papp wishes for no more theater critics. Strom Thurmond advises a regimen of daily exercise. Howard Cosell, with his trademark bombast (we miss it), offers up a homily: "What is popular is not always right. What is right is not always popular." Oprah Winfrey explains that the things hanging from her ears are called earrings...