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This just in: The Lieberman announcement is a smokescreen - a Democratic strategy to add zip to its convention at Los Angeles' Staples Center arena. This week on the floor, just when the delegates and the dozen or so TV viewers least expect it, Joseph Lieberman will surprise everyone by introducing...
That first paragraph was a lie, though it depends on what you mean by "lie." Rather, you could call it an ironic riff on the shocking predictability of political conventions and the importance of Gary Smith. At age 65, with 24 Emmy awards and four decades' experience with TV specials...
Unfortunately, Smith doesn't have the power to shorten the convention (he answers to the DNC and the Gore campaign), but he's doing what he can to put some life in the party. Last week TIME shadowed Smith as he prepared for the Democrats' arrival: On Monday, Aug. 7...
His complaint will not be alone. I noticed several bizarre abuses of music during the Philadelphia convention. One morning I snuck into the arena and caught the orchestra rehearsing. It was quite surreal. Three tunes especially caught my ear.
(Judging by the perpetual scowl on Newt Gingrich's face all week as he scoured the convention corridors looking for cameras to pontificate in front of, a more apt selection from the O'Jays' oeuvre would have been their 1972 hit "Backstabbers.")