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Meanwhile, Magaziner was making enemies on Capitol Hill, where he was regarded as a political klutz who did more to damage the Clinton case than to help it. At one meeting with Republicans on legislative strategy, Magaziner dismissed such talk as "minutiae." The First Lady was dispatched to the Hill...
Given his recent circumstances, the distracted, unpolished air of this movie is understandable. It may even be that an air of modest amiability is -- for him, for now -- the right stance. But he has taught his devotees to expect more, and, perhaps cruelly, we continue to do so.
CINEMA Woody Allen returns to pure comedy in Manhattan Murder Mystery, but he seems distracted. King of the Hill takes a tough-minded look at boyhood during the Depression. MUSIC Clint Black sings radio-ready country pop that has a splash of introspection. From Britain's Gavin Bryars comes a...
Every day the children, in gangs of five or more, make their way to the city's main black market. In carefully choreographed routines they loot the stalls. Two boys approach a seller from the right, two from the left, and they begin to argue. While the seller is distracted...
For a medium so concerned with "family values," TV has been treating the family pretty badly of late. With rare exceptions (notably ABC's Roseanne), sitcom clans are stitched together with baling wire and bad jokes. Serious family dramas (Family, A Year in the Life) have all but disappeared from...