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Imagine Mario Cuomo presiding over the New York State legislature in a ball gown and tiara. Today, such a sight might have ended his political career, if the Republicans hadn't gotten to him first. In fact, Cuomo would just have been following the lead of his predecessor Lord Cornbury, the Colonial governor of New York in 1702. Cornbury, using the excuse that he had to he had to represent Queen Anne as best he could, regularly wore women's clothing to the state's Assembly. His portrait--in which he sports "a gown, stays, tucker, long ruffles...
...under the most garish lights outside a discount-store dressing room and stopping to take deep breaths and frequent sips of water, she either gave an Oscar-worthy rendition of a person with stage fright or she actually had it. (Who wouldn't? Everyone from Mikhail Gorbachev to Mario Cuomo has preceded her to the podium of the Institute of Politics.) She delivered a TelePrompTed broadside at her critics, naming names (Rush, Newt, Jesse--Helms, not Jackson--and the editor of the New Republic). She denounced the politicians and media who seduce and then turn on performers: ``We can attract...
...QUAYLE Looks less goofy with Cuomo and Richards doing chip...
...mean, they've got all their steaks just lined up!'' The revolt against the disadvantaged, ranging from calls for welfare reform to the backlash against illegal immigrants, has emerged as a national policy prescription. Will self-reliance turn mean? Will it lift America's spirits? Pessimists abound. Mario Cuomo, New York's ousted Governor, predicts that voters will keep reversing themselves: ``Unless the mood changes dramatically, you won't be able to do enough to satisfy them...
Former Vice President Dan Quayle got flak for demeaning the office by popping up in a "Wavy Lays" chip commercial during last year's Super Bowl, but liberal stalwarts Mario Cuomo and Ann Richards have nothing left to lose. The Democratic ex-governors of New York and Texas will appear in a 30-second ad during this Sunday's big game, swapping some tongue-in-cheek advice: "I should have seen it coming," says Richards. Replies Cuomo: "Maybe so, but now I think we ought to accept this change, embrace it, be positive about it, because change can be very...