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...from which to look down on presidential politics. Though there are backstage meetings and tense strategic debates, What It Takes is not Theodore White's Making of the President series revisited. For one thing, Cramer views the overpaid and overpraised parade of pollsters and media advisers as a comic chorus to be irreverently dismissed as "wise guys," "Big Guys," "killers" and (his sobriquet for the Bush team) "White Guys." Unlike the sainted Teddy White and the current crop of political reporters who grew up on his mythmaking, Cramer loathes, not loves, the modern political process...
...even switched my concentration from Chemistry to Religion in my junior year, provoking a chorus of "What are you going to do with that?" from family, friends, and advisers. Upon hearing my decision, my chemistry adviser Baird Professor of Science Dudley R. Herschbach said, "Religion? It's just a primitive form of science...
...Albert Gore of Tennessee noted that a tacit understanding was developing between family planning advocates and the Catholic Church that would allow poor nations to take more aggressive steps on the vital question of population. Participants of all stripes emerged from meetings with smiles pasted on and offered a chorus of variations on the theme: "If nothing else happens, the summit is still a success because...
...today, worth an estimated $600 million, although he claims not to know the full extent of his assets. He has become one of the biggest independent publishing tycoons in the world, holding the copyrights to 3,000 songs, including the scores of such musicals as Guys and Dolls, A Chorus Line and Grease, all the songs of his boyhood hero, Buddy Holly, and many other pop favorites. In addition, his London-based company, MPL Communications, has its hand in film ventures like the artsy animated short Daumier's Law, which debuted at the Cannes Film Festival last month...
...CHORUS GIRLS TWIRL AROUND IN HEADdresses a la Busby Berkeley. Gymnasts flex, and one inverts himself into a handstand minutes long. A busty blond croons a pop tune. Then Nazi soldiers march in. No, it's not Broadway's Cabaret, but an even more genuine article, staged by Berlin's Theater des Westens to depict how Hitler's regime fused popular culture and propaganda. BERLIN CABARET, at Washington's Kennedy Center through this week, is gloriously mounted if scantily plotted. Its showy numbers evoke radio, pop music and the 1936 Olympics but focus on the movies, especially as seen...