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...typically Canadian fashion, the audience was far too polite to take any overt notice of Him. We pretended to glance over at the tree he was standing under, looking for a bird whose song we could have sworn we recognized. But under that thin, hard coat of well-bred civility, there was an unsatisfied urge to mob him. Like a dam waiting to burst, we looked around at each other, wondering who would be the first to release the floodgate...
...planning to leave after the fall elections, Administration officials are quietly searching for someone to recast the First Lady's image by mixing in a little more tradition and tea sipping. "We need a young Liz Carpenter-type," sighs one official, referring to Lady Bird Johnson's inventive Texas-bred press secretary. Key question in job interviews: What should Mrs. Clinton's next project be? Good answer: Promoting the needs of children...
...movies into what deserves to be a long and unfettered career, Stillman has fashioned a subspecies of civilized male that is as well defined as a Fitzgerald beau or a Cheever suburbanite. They are the young, Reagan-bred Republicans who astounded their parents by turning out exactly like them, but with a coating of Lettermanesque irony. They see The Graduate from the viewpoint of the spurned, stuffy groom. They believe that being a salesman is "not just a job but a culture." They read the Bible while dancing alone to Glenn Miller's PEnnsylvania 6-5000. And when they encounter...
Classically trained and sitcom-bred, Hanks knows that the starkest drama can always use a leavening of wit. For most of the film, he underplays Forrest's reactions at a level somewhere between a fretful deadpan and the rural slyness of the early Andy Griffith. So when he releases his feelings at the end (when questions of fatherhood and family traits are involved), the scene gushes like a geyser...
...sharp blow. Noting that three of the health-care plans emerging from committees listed abortion as part of a standard-benefits package, the National Conference of Catholic Bishops sadly but unanimously vowed to mount a grass-roots campaign against the final product if it followed suit. That announcement bred others: 72 members of Congress said they would have difficulty voting for any bill that doesn't include abortion as a benefit. Thirty-five others responded by making public a threat to oppose any bill that does. An awful possibility hovered before the Democratic congressional leadership: however they chose, the abortion...