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After you've dug your swimsuit out of the bottom of your closet and proclaimed to anyone within earshot that you are going to come back with a tan, you might start to think about the place you are going to visit. Do you need a visa? What's the drinking age? Are American condoms readily available? This will not be, after all, a mind-broadening, different-lifestyle-experiencing, cultural trip. It will be hot and seething with alcohol and debauchery...
...Having dug up the bones of a cunning old genre, Howard lets the flesh hang like crape. There's beaucoup bustle but not much pulse. The pace is too slow for farce, the characters too cartoony for drama. Whereas His Girl Friday ran its gags on the fast track, The Paper often slows down to lend its galaxy of star types (Robert Duvall, Jason Alexander) a hint of dimension to their roles. But these subplots aren't much more sophisticated than those in The Wizard of Oz: Duvall gets a heart, Close a brain, Keaton courage. Tomei gets a baby...
...archaeology of scandals, nothing dug up so far has been ruinous, but all of it is corrosive in a White House struggling to shield not one but two embattled leaders. After months of slippery evasions, the Administration abruptly changed strategies. As Republicans shouted for congressional hearings, officials from Vice President Al Gore on down fanned out to television shows to express their measured contrition. "Whitewater isn't about cover-ups," said counselor David Gergen on Nightline. "It's about screw-ups." Said policy adviser George Stephanopoulos: "Did the damage- control team create a lot more damage than it controlled...
...picture of upwardly mobile success: "We live in San Rafael, California, and I work at Priebe, Emond & Farmer, the San Francisco firm, where I have worked since the last days of the Eisenhower administration. At one time or another we have owned a Shetland pony, dug a swimming pool, leased a summer cottage at Lake Tahoe, and given generously to the Israel General Fund . . ." Inwardly, he is trying to come to grips with an irrational act of petty theft he committed against a man who could have advanced his career -- an act that will leave him both professionally shaken...
...stride in that semi-final match," vanLeeuwen said. "I sort of dug down and found someenergy...