Word: dicks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...years studying the master, trying to break Clinton's seamless performance into component parts he can make his own. But Clinton's gifts are as irreducible as a sunset; Gore has not picked them up yet, and he won't. "He does the steps," says former presidential adviser Dick Morris, "but he doesn't hear the music." Even Tipper Gore concedes his reticence as a public figure, while arguing that it has its own virtue. "Bill Clinton is fantastic; there's no question about it. And he's a very different personality type than my husband," she says...
White House sources have been whispering that the President and First Lady are concerned that Gore, forced to protect his left flank from a populist attack by House minority leader Dick Gephardt in the 2000 primaries, will not stand up for New Democratic achievements--the balanced budget, welfare reform, economic growth--that the Clintons see as their legacy. This seems unfair, since Gore consistently argued in favor of those positions inside the White House--sometimes before the Clintons were aboard. Clinton has fretted about Gore's ability to hold firm--not because he questions Gore's beliefs but because...
...became a local prosecutor in 1980 at age 27--the youngest in state history. But in the early 1990s, he sensed changes in the political winds, critics say, and switched parties. "Charlie Condon will be anything that 51% of the population wants him to be," says a bitter Dick Harpootlian, a Columbia lawyer who lost to Condon in 1994. "He's now helping move South Carolina faster toward the 19th century than toward the 21st...
...Reported by Irene M. Kunii/Tokyo and Dick Thompson/Washington
Once the ship starts sinking, people do die becomingly, and the R.M.S. Titanic takes on the personality of a magnificent beast--King Kong or Moby Dick in extremis. The brilliantly realized visual effects are invisible and persuasive. The digitized water looks like real water; the computer blobs look like human beings tumbling down to their deaths from the severed ship's nearly vertical stern. But the narrative events that should add emotional heft are substandard action tropes: kids in jeopardy, bad guys menacing pretty women, Jack manacled to a water pipe. "I'll just wait here," he says gamely...