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...hubbub and the amber light of a crowded night spot, Don Carlson moves smoothly through the crowd. He is shirtless and in stocking feet, and he weighs 330 lbs., not counting the tiny gold angel wings between his shoulder blades. ("You have to say how tall he is," his fiancee urgently advises, "or people will think he's this little round guy.") So, all right, he is built like an N.F.L. tackle, stands just shy of six feet tall, and is more graceful than any man in heart-shaped pasties and a 48-in. diaper has a right...
...what makes him a star. Disguised by day as a shy and unassuming lubrication-equipment mechanic, Carlson is acclaimed by night -- Could we have ; a big hand, folks? -- as Donnie Lovedart! The first few notes of a familiar tune by the Spinners come up on the sound system, and then he's off, moonwalking across stage with his shades down and an arrow ready, singing, or seeming to sing, "Cupid, draw back your bow . . ." Lovedart is an agreeable fake, a master of the command nonperformance, an angel, yes, but also a duke- duke-duke of the lip-sync world...
After writing critical articles on the B-1 Bomber and the inefficacy of the U.S. strategy of controlled escalation in Vietnam, Carlson said he left the military to join the Council of Economic Advisors...
...Carlson said he went on to lead a task force on OPEC-induced energy shortages and to run unsuccessfully for Senate, before taking the top post at the National Association of Realtors, the largest PAC in the U.S. With a laugh, he said he accepted the position "on behalf of making democracy work...
...Like Carlson and Duggan, Maxine Isaacs has had a career as a national political appointee. Isaacs, the first woman to serve as a press secretary on the national level, acted as former Vice President Walter Mondale's campaign press secretary and former President Carter's deputy press secretary...