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...mystical, play with language and discuss what it means to be missing in America. What or who is missed? Is a missing person like a missed appointment, a missed date? How is it possible to be missing in the land of multiple sources of identification? (Here, note that Gary Condit is said to have told Chandra Levy not to carry any means of identification with her when they had their trysts.) Who and what does Levy miss...
...angle taken most easily, of course, involves the down-and-dirty possibilities of the case--the lurid interest in Condit's apartment house, shown frequently on TV and looking like the soulless building where Isabella Rossellini was kept in Blue Velvet; the images of secret lovemaking on dank and silent Washington summer evenings; new old girlfriends turning up on a weekly basis, talking of being told not to talk. One could swim down into this stuff or pretend to sail above it (as this paragraph somewhat does) and swim while sailing...
...Levy praised California's Senators, Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein, for showing concern for her and calling her family about the case. Interestingly, she noted that California's Governor Gray Davis has yet to call her family: "Nope. I've never head from him," Susan Levy says. Both of Condit's grown children work for the California governor, who was a political ally of Condit...
...Levy declined to talk about the controversial new TALK magazine piece about her daughter, saying that she hadn't yet read the just-published article. The story, among other things, chronicles the Levy's conversations with Condit in the days after her daughter's disappearance - a topic Levy wouldn't discuss...
...also declined to call for the resignation of Rep. Gary Condit, who is at the center of the controversy. "Let the people decide for themselves," she told TIME. And she didn't condemn his reportedly taking a vacation instead of speaking to his constituents about the Levy matter...