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...embassies. The question facing Western policymakers is whether Saddam's intensified lobbying to end the embargo shows last-ditch desperation, which would argue for keeping up the pressure in hopes of toppling the regime, or whether Saddam has successfully ridden out the storm. In any event, his strategy is clever and multipronged...
Press coverage and clever soundbites only take an organization so far, according to youth leaders from large grass-roots groups like the Urban League, Campus Greenvote and the NAACP. And groups like the United States Associations (USAA), which has 350 member campuses, 3.5 million members and registered 200,000 young voters in 1992, may lack the media savvy of Third Millennium, but they can still make legislators sit up and listen. "Third Millennium can't get 30,00 students to write in to their Congressmen like we can," says USSA president Tchiyuka Cornelius...
...film was so raw and assaultive in its mondo-trasho fashion -- a prime example of cinema sploshite -- that it made viewers feel it was made by those crude people onscreen. But no: Waters was using crudity as an ironic style. He was a gross-out Oscar Wilde, making clever comedies of bad manners...
During their playing days together at the University of Arkansas in the mid- 1960s, Johnson and Jones were not overburdened with talent. Instead, they played clever, which got them as far as the Razorbacks' starting lineup. Then Jones got into oil. In a substantial way. Twenty-five years later he was able to part with $140 million, give or take, in exchange for ownership of the Cowboys. Johnson, on the other hand, slid into coaching, where the remuneration was more modest but the skills perfectly suited to his driven personality. After five years at Oklahoma State, he moved...
...imbalance enters is in an irritating secondary theme, scored for piccolo. That theme is William Vollmann, whom the author finds boundlessly fascinating. He can't stay out of his own novels, and he capers in and out of them, representing himself typically as William the Blind, a very clever, very naughty historical voyeur. The first volumes of the Seven Dreams cycle are successful novels despite Vollmann's frequent first-person kibitzing. His new book, The Rifles (Viking; 411 pages; $22.95), is an exasperating hash of fiction, op-ed attitudinizing, men's magazine heroics, cut-and-paste history and confessional autobiography...