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...wait to cue up some Johnny Mathis albums. Even in Washington, his neighborhood is a sound stage: he lives in the Watergate, spends Sundays going to church, appearing on talk shows and taking Elizabeth to brunch. He has no grandchildren to divert him and few hobbies beyond watching C-SPAN or old movies. He vacations in Florida at a condominium complex where he pals around with David Brinkley and Robert Strauss and Dwayne Andreas--men taking the same break from the same loop...
Oddly enough, the proposals all come just as events overtake the imperative. Thanks to the Internet, talk radio, C-SPAN and cable talk shows, voters this year have more direct access to candidates than ever before. The very day that ABC announced its offer of an hour in prime time, Bill Clinton was live on CNBC discussing Senate gridlock over the minimum wage. Then, minutes later, C-SPAN--the All Dole All the Time network when the Senate is in session--showed the majority leader rebutting the President. Internet Websites like TIME-CNN's AllPolitics http:www.allpolitics.com/ routinely include...
...rarely watches a congressional filibuster on C-SPAN and thinks--hey, add a guitar lick and this would make a really rockin' song. Still, politics, or at least social commentary, can add an invigorating edge to pop music, and it's something too many musicians shy away from. What are they afraid of? Doesn't singing for the umpteenth time some ditty about a troublesome lover or adolescent angst get a little tired after a while...
...surface of her most raucous songs. The one problem is that the lyrics are sometimes a bit daft: I'm Still Remembering pays tribute to Kurt Cobain in one couplet and, in a loopy segue, lauds John F. Kennedy in the next. Perhaps O'Riordan should watch more C-SPAN...
...MUSIC . . . TO THE FAITHFUL DEPARTED: "One rarely watches a Congressional filibuster on C-Span and thinks -->