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Turner started his call to checkbooks in August 1996, when, incensed by a New York Times report that the very wealthy give away a smaller proportion of their wealth than other economic groups, he told Times columnist Maureen Dowd that the Forbes 400 list of millionaires "is destroying our country...
...that Ruth Messinger, Democratic Mayoral contender, doesn't have a shot against incumbent Republican Mayor Rudolf Giuliani, mainly because of the crime issue (New York is now safer than at any time since 1964), and because the city is reaping the benefits of a strong national economy. Maureen Dowd dubs Giuliani "the happy dictator" in the New York Times, and people crack jokes about how all New Yorkers want is for the trains to run on time...
...Maureen Dowd dubs Giuliani "the happy dictator" in the Times, and people crack jokes about how all New Yorkers want is for the trains to run on time...
...mean? The hometown boy of romantic comedy, goshing and gollying his way into Margaret Sullavan's heart in The Shop Around the Corner? Or the tortured Capra hero whose trust in American values was tested past all endurance, till he tumbled close to madness? Or the pixilated Elwood P. Dowd of Harvey, his best friend an invisible rabbit? Or the vengeful loner of the Anthony Mann westerns of the '50s--taut epics like Bend of the River and The Man from Laramie--in which Stewart often played a bitter Moses leading settlers to the far country he could never call...
Certain political journalists may go mad if he is not deposed in the next couple of years. In the past few weeks alone, in a sort of limp-up to the Inauguration, observers such as Jacob Weisberg, Garry Wills and Maureen Dowd have scowled at his scandals, his personal treacheries and alleged philandering. What Clinton does to Joe Klein and Bill Safire shouldn't happen to a dog. None of these first-class intelligences are normally subject to fits of rage or blue funks, but when it comes to the man from Hope, whoa Nellie...