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Where we slowly chew on our unending songs...
...depiction of sexual activity. Literature can convey only a mechanical imitation of the real thing-and offer a skewed reality to boot: "I should like to suggest that at least on the face of it, a stroke by stroke story of a copulation is exactly as absurd as a chew by chew account of the consumption of a chicken's wing." Instead of their lovers, Gass wants writers to caress their language: "It's not the word made flesh we want in writing, in poetry and fiction, but the flesh made word." In Gass's view...
...First you walk into your chopper door. Then you fall down the ramp of Air Force One. Before you even take office you arrange for the last Democratic President to suggest your inability to chew gum and do much of anything else. Then, when your opponent is all set up, you show up for a campaign debate, leaving your college football helmet at home, and play 90 minutes of What's My Line? without falling on your fanny. Viewers are impressed. You aren't an utter boob after...
...there a better way? This week representatives of the League of Women Voters will meet with agents from the Ford and Carter camps to chew over changes that could make the next two debates (on Wednesday Oct. 6 and Friday Oct. 22) more exciting and informative. There is, of course, no way of overcoming the limitations of television, which is simply not a medium suited to rational explanation of complex subjects. At any rate, the White House, figuring that Ford won Round 1 and should do well in the future, likes the old format just fine. Carter's forces...
...first 90-minute debate, on Thursday, Sept. 23, will be on domestic and economic issues. In their second encounter, Ford and Carter will chew over foreign policy and national defense, and the third will be open to any subject. Dates of those sessions have not been selected. Between the second and third meetings, Dole and Mondale will stage the first debate of vice-presidential candidates...