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When very big people in Washington find themselves in very big trouble, they dial 202-371-7000. Washington's consummate fixer Clark Clifford did; so did former Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger. Even Marge Schott, of Cincinnati Reds infamy. The number gets them the prestigious firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom -- and access to Robert Bennett, Washington's new superlawyer. Not since 1973 has a jury trial sent a Bennett client to prison -- and he got that client off with three years for second-degree murder instead of 20 years for first...
Have a seat. Switch on the computer. Dial into a network. Type in a password. And welcome to the world of the WELL -- the Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link. Romance may be just a few keystrokes or the click of a mouse away. The California-based electronic bulletin board is one of the many new cybersocieties where men and women can meet and message each other in a network less smoky than a singles bar, less nerve-racking than a blind date. There are no worries about appearances. No flesh. No sweat. Utopia? No way. Romance gone awry has gummed...
Dancers were nervous; they didn't practice at home in front of the mirror until their swaggers were perfect, like the alternative crowd did. Even though the DJ sounded like he did nothing but switch the dial from ZOU to KISS all night, and even though women and men dressed to the height of the Tello's aesthetic, no one was looking to make a scene...
Charles Kimbrough, who plays the painfully stiff anchorman Jim Dial on the TV sitcom Murphy Brown, makes this performance subtler and deeper and eschews the trademark grimaces of someone who has just smelled something foul. The action unfolds during a cocktail party where he meets, courts, wins and loses a woman (the incandescent Maureen Anderman) whom he knew three decades before. The youthful infatuation ended with her offering herself and his declining, not out of prudishness but from a lifelong premonition that something terrible was going to happen and from a courtly determination not to have anyone share his doom...
...needed to go to the bathroom, Les, by now in his late 70s, would have to lift her from wheelchair to toilet and pull down her slacks. Once while Les was out, the radio lost its signal: Sue listened to static for hours, unable to get to the dial...