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...Clinton-Dole race of '96, the election Puritans offer a laundry-list of reforms--a campaign-finance overhaul, mandatory voting and an improvement in what one watchdog group calls the "quality of the campaign discourse." Otherwise, these storm crows warn, American democracy will wither away and vanish, like the dodo and France's ancien regime...
Aimee Mann/"Bachelor No. 2, or the Last Remains of the Dodo" The long-suffering (and not shy about sharing it) victim of major-label machinations and countless slights, real or imagined, at the hands the male species had to keep her public waiting for the follow-up to 1995's "I'm With Stupid," but talent will out -- especially with friends like director Paul Thomas Anderson, who crafted "Magnolia" around her songs, instead of the other way around. Comprising about half that film's soundtrack, "Bachelor" is as good as it gets for fans of richly melodic misanthropy; these...
...beak; shrinking the wings, keel and wishbone (ostrich genes would be helpful here); massively increasing size and sturdiness of the body; and so on. Pretty soon they have the recipe for a big, featherless, wingless, toothy-jawed monster that looks a little like a cross between a dodo and a tiger...
...Like animals who graze their savannas to stubble and humans who fill their cities to bursting, ads may simply exhaust the very resource that keeps them alive. That resource, in this case, is the goodwill of consumers. As any endangered animal can attest, what follows is extinction. For the dodo, that's a tragedy. For the banana sticker, it would be another thing entirely...
...News Rating: [Three Khomeinis] Crisis in the White House is a little vague--there could be a war, a terrorist, or somebody may have forgotten to take Buddy for a walk. But the tight White House shot effectively evokes tension; ABC News' theme music--do do dodo--feels a little tired. Paging Danny Elfman...