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Marketing a hero requires some clever strategizing. Last week Air Force officials offered to put some of the Marines who rescued O'Grady on the David Letterman show along with him. "But we learned that the invitation to us for Letterman was only to sweeten the pot," a senior Marine officer said. "Because O'Grady already was slated to go on Leno, Letterman wouldn't take him unless the Pentagon could offer something extra, so the Air Force invited us to tag along to use as leverage to get Letterman to take him." The Marines refused to entertain the offer...
Gritz: Koernke and Thompson are figuratively yelling "Fire!" in a theater. Koernke may be a janitor, but this guy is a very clever, very well-read man. And Linda Thompson is an attorney. There's no excuse for her telling people to go to Washington and bring their guns. Maybe they use this type of explosive, irresponsible rhetoric to draw crowds...
...received a no-confidence vote from parliament,Russian President Boris Yeltsinupped the ante, asking for a second vote within the next ten days. A second no-confidence vote within a three-month period would clear the way for Yeltsin todissolve the legislatureand call for new elections. "It's a clever move designed to make the parliament either shut up or toe the line," says John Kohan, Moscow bureau chief for TIME. "The parliament has become a real irritation, with a rapidly growing block of anti-Yeltsin members. So Yeltsin will either get the parliament to back down...
...still miss the main point. Yes, the Indians are very nice people here, which is a nice thing. And yes, the real Pocahontas probably didn't have Tina Turner's posture and Iman's neck. She probably didn't sing Broadway-style songs either or talk to a clever raccoon and a persnickety hummingbird. Maybe John Smith didn't look like Fabio and sound like Mel Gibson (who speaks the role). But this is a movie-a cartoon, for goodness' sake! It is a boy-meets-girl, boy-gets-girl, boy-loses-girl story whose plot is familiar in every...
...marginalia of our college, continually examined and undressed. Addictively, slavishly, we read FM with our eyes glazed with dim recollection, with our teeth gnashing over memories of the low-fat plum pudding bars and fish pizzaiola which Harvard Dining Services purveys. We are easily stupefied by the most clever publication around. Like the couple in Don Delillo's White Noise, who make love only in the "style" of a certain century, Fifteen Minutes encourages us to revel in the pop cultural dross of Americana. What accounts for this phenomenon? How did it all happen...