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This has been a campaign season of modest politics, with modest excitements. What it got on Sunday night in the first of the presidential debates was a modest face-off--low-key, congenial and small bore, However good that may have been for the quality of public discourse, it didn't do much for Bob Dole's dwindling chances on Election Day. He needed to come away from the debate in Hartford, Connecticut, a clear winner, He took prizes instead for good behavior...
What deLima did have, in abundance, was the willingness to make a show of herself, without which the whole evening would have been hopeless. She came down into the audience and pretended to berate an audience member (A plant? He bore it with too much grace not to be,) in Weill's wonderful song "I'm a Stranger Here Myself." That, incidentally, was the best performance of the night, allowing deLima to combine histrionics with an aggressive, loudish tone; in other words, to be operatic (it's no coincidence, I think, that Weill was also the only "serious" composer...
...board. From the beginning, the theories--a missile, an exploding fuel tank, a mechanical failure or possibly even a meteorite strike--seemed almost as confusing as the jumbled pieces of the plane. And then a set of tantalizing clues emerged. Investigators discovered that several pieces of recovered wreckage bore minute traces of chemical explosives. That evidence provided the strongest support for a bomb theory. Last week, however, this line of inquiry was interrupted. On Thursday investigators learned that on June 10 St. Louis airport police had used the plane that would be TWA Flight 800 as a testing facility...
...appeared both compassionate and firm. In embracing the G.O.P.'s call for a balanced budget (in July 1995, fully eight months before Dole's nomination), he laid claim to fiscal sanity, an issue virtually owned by the Republicans since budgets were first adopted. From there a series of small-bore but powerfully symbolic pronouncements followed. In August 1995 he urged a crackdown on tobacco advertising directed at kids. Calls for school uniforms, teen curfews, V chips to block violent television shows, and a series of proposals aimed at women voters specifically (including bills designed to increase child-support collections, extend...
...campaign changed that. While President Clinton was hurt early in his Administration by his association with the gays-in-the-military issue, by 1996 he was seen as being in the American mainstream. While many in the media derided his emphasis on what they regarded as small-bore issues like school uniforms, curfews and expanding family leave, our surveys showed that voters were frequently more interested in these issues than in Travelgate and Filegate...