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...excerpt from their new book, TIME's White House correspondents say that the President's most important first-term goal was winning a second term...
Elizabeth Humphrey commented, "It's about who understands what and when they understand it and why aren't two people communicating?" An excerpt from Margaret Atwood's Rape Fantasies is used in the project, describing the fear of the both sexes that "it's getting so you can hardly be social anymore. How can you meet anyone if you can't trust them that basic amount...
...success. Two Democrats and a Republican--former Louisiana Governor Buddy Roemer, Georgia Governor Zell Miller and South Carolina Governor Carroll Campbell-blasted the Challenger's campaign tactics on Sunday morning television. And it's no accident that the Journal and Constitution article covering the Buchanan campaign ended with an excerpt from a conversation between the candidate and Robin Jackson, the president of the Houston county NAACP...
...tender domesticity of the English Canzonettas contrasts with the broad sweep of the cantata, but Watkinson and Wilson still demonstrate their ability to exploit evocative possibilities in these short gems. The Canzonettas are fairly straightforward arrangements of strophic songs by an English poetess, accompanied by a setting of an excerpt from act II, scene 4 of Twelfth Night. Yet even if their tone is more modest than that of the cantata, their dramatic development is comparable. Haydn's delicate melody-lines are lovingly phrased by Watkinson, and Wilson audibly revels in the remarkably independent keyboard writing. The fortepiano passages contain...
Incidentally, rumor has it Wynette demanded an apology from Clinton. Being well acquainted with defending her "theme song" against feminist criticism--she's been fielding the punches ever since the single's 1968 release and subsequent crossover success--we imagine she had a lot to say. A excerpt from her 1979 autobiography Stand By Your Man sums up her feelings...