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...SAYS BOB DOLE HAS GOT "NO ideas." And Pat Buchanan has got the "wrong" ones. But walking the path of hubris that led Gary Hart off a cliff in 1988, Lamar Alexander insists he alone has the "new ideas" a new millennium deserves. So goes the sound bite. But Alexander's signature proposals don't always live up to their billing. Many have been kicked around for years, dropped as unwise, shirk the tough calls or come with so few details that they raise more questions than they answer...
...pieces in the inaugural issue range from computer-enhanced graphics to an art review of a Neo-Dada exhibit to a parody of Cliff Notes...
...plot straining in different directions. What I'm getting at is, yes, the show still lacked contiguity. Rather than gradually weaving together several independently intriguing plot lines, the show could barely maintain my interest in any of its outrageous situations. As for a cliffhanger before intermission, consider that cliff as yet unclimbed...
...possessions devalued to forgeries or to works carried out by Rembrandt's assiduous apprentices have not been altogether pleased with the RRP's verdicts. And those who came to see these now discredited paintings may feel a little like the cartoon characters who walk off the edge of a cliff and continue stepping along until they look down. Uh-oh, no support here. Crash...
...drown in the cold water--their last thought in this life: "Boy, was this dumb or what?"--and so far I have not been one of them. Caution was bred into me: I never played with guns or made a hobby of pharmaceuticals or flung myself off a cliff while clinging to a kite. I read books instead. I read books in which men hearken to wild imperatives, and that is enough...