Word: eye
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Although Sarandon has been nominated for three Academy Awards in recent years, Matthew B. Colangelo '96, producer of "Morocco 'Round the Clock" and a member of the Pudding selection committee, said it was some of her earlier work that caught his eye...
...concede that it's easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter heaven. When it comes to entering the White House, wealth still has its advantages. So many, in fact, that American politics has become a rich person's game as never before. In addition to Forbes, the '96 G.O.P. presidential field includes Morry Taylor, a multimillionaire tire manufacturer. And billionaire Ross Perot may run again...
...campaign insiders--even the speechwriters and the imagemakers--could boast the writing talent to pull off a work of fiction that is the best aide's-eye view of politics since Robert Penn Warren's All the King's Men, published in 1946. Narrated in the voice of Stephanopoulos-clone Henry Burton (a tip of the hat to Warren's Jack Burden?), the novel captures with eerie precision the psychological bonds between the Clintonesque candidate (hyperambitious Southern Governor Jack Stanton) and his most indispensable adviser. Here is Burton, who is portrayed as the grandson of a Martin Luther King-like...
...COLUMN ON UTAH REPRESENTAtive Enid Greene Waldholtz [PUBLIC EYE, Dec. 25-Jan. 1], Margaret Carlson accuses Waldholtz of admitting that she "lied" about the source of campaign funds and of having "larceny in her heart." These characterizations are absolutely false and meanspirited. Waldholtz appeared before the press and answered every question posed to her about her 1994 congressional campaign and related issues. She absolutely did not admit she lied about a transaction that enabled her to contribute what she believed to be personal funds to her campaign, nor was she "a knowing beneficiary of the con artist--who knows...
...playing games? What have you been doing instead of erecting barriers, strengthening your forces and stopping the rebels?" The generals--Defense Minister Pavel Grachev; Interior Minister Anatoli Kulikov; Andrei Nikolayev, the commander of the Border Guards; and Security Chief Mikhail Barsukov--sat in chastened silence, heads lowered, avoiding eye contact with their outraged commander in chief...